Southern Indians and the Problem of Race

Native southerners only gradually and incompletely adopted the concept of race as inherent, immutable, and transgenerational differences grounded in phenotype. When Europeans first arrived in the South in the 16th century, indigenous people were members of extended kin groups and subjects of powerfu...

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Published inThe New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture p. 162
Main Author THEDA PERDUE
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published The University of North Carolina Press 03.06.2013
Subjects
Ancestry
Anthropology
Armed conflict
Behavioral sciences
Civil wars
Ethnic groups
Ethnology
Genealogy
Government
Historical methodology
Historiography
History
Human geography
Human societies
Intermarriage
International law
Law
Local government
Marriage
Military science
Political geography
Political science
Polities
Slavery
Social institutions
Social organization
Social sciences
Sociology
Sovereign states
Treaties
Tribal governments
War
War theaters
White people
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Summary:Native southerners only gradually and incompletely adopted the concept of race as inherent, immutable, and transgenerational differences grounded in phenotype. When Europeans first arrived in the South in the 16th century, indigenous people were members of extended kin groups and subjects of powerful chiefs who exercised secular and religious authority. Chiefdoms warred with each other, enslaved captives, reduced lesser polities to tributary status, and periodically reconfigured the population into new polities. As chiefdoms collapsed after the European invasion, kinship alone came to define political relationships, and individuals were either kin or enemies. By the 18th century, southern Indian tribes began
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