Patrolling the Border: Theft and Violence on the Creek-Georgia Frontier, 1770-1796 Haynes Joshua
Patrolling the Border: Theft and Violence on the Creek-Georgia Frontier, 1770-1796 Haynes Joshua Patrolling the Border focuses on a late eighteenth-century conflict between Creek Indians and…
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Patrolling the Border: Theft and Violence on the Creek-Georgia Frontier, 1770-1796 Haynes Joshua
Patrolling the Border focuses on a late eighteenth-century conflict between Creek Indians and Georgians. Haynes argues that the period should be viewed as the struggle of nonstate indigenous people to develop an effective method of resisting colonization.Using database and digital mapping applications, Haynes identifies one such method of resistance: a pattern of Creek raiding best described as politically motivated border patrols. The conflict was marked by years of seemingly random theft and violence culminating in open war along the Oconee River, the contested border between the two peoples. Joshua S.
These actions, however, sharpened divisions over political leadership both in Creek country and in the infant United Drawing on precontact ideas and two hundred years of political innovation, border patrols harnessed a popular spirit of unity to defend Creek country.