Book chapter
The Greatest Travelers in America: SHAWNEE SURVIVAL IN THE SHATTER ZONE
Mapping the Mississippian Shatter Zone, p.163
UNP - Nebraska Paperback
11/01/2009
Abstract
Both anthropologists and historians have made much of sacred geography and the power of place in American Indian cultures. Historian Colin Calloway writes that for the Shawnees “tribal homelands were hallowed ground. They drew both physical and spiritual sustenance from it.” Historian James Taylor Carson expands his focus, writing that for American Indians from the South “removal triggered a crisis of cosmology because it upset the spiritual systems of ritual and power that [Southern] Native Americans had written into the landscape.” To the Southwest anthropologist Keith Basso’s powerful assessment of Western Apache “place-making” makes clear the “moral significance of geographic
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- Title: Subtitle
- The Greatest Travelers in America: SHAWNEE SURVIVAL IN THE SHATTER ZONE
- Creators
- STEPHEN WARRENRANDOLPH NOE
- Contributors
- Robbie Ethridge (Editor)Sheri M. Shuck-Hall (Editor)
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Publication Details
- Mapping the Mississippian Shatter Zone, p.163
- Publisher
- UNP - Nebraska Paperback
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 11/01/2009
- Academic Unit
- History; American Studies
- Record Identifier
- 9984025542402771
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