University Press of Florida, 2000. — 352 p.
This volume brings together a stellar group of scholars to summarize what we know of the development of native American cultures in the southeastern United States after 1500. The authors integrate archaeological, documentary, and ethnohistorical evidence in the most comprehensive examination of diverse southeastern Indian cultures published in decades.
Introduction by Bonnie G. McEwan
The Timucua Indians of Northern Florida and Southern Georgia, by Jerald T. Milanich
The Guale Indians of the Lower Atlantic Coast: Change and Continuity, by Rebecca Saunders
The Apalachee Indians of Northwest Florida, by Bonnie G. McEwan
The Chickasaws, by Jay K. Johnson
The Caddo of the Trans-Mississippi South, by Ann M. Early
The Natchez of Southwest Mississippi, by Karl G. Lorenz
The Quapaw Indians of Arkansas, 1673-1803, by George Sabo III
Cherokee Ethnohistory and Archaeology, by Gerald F. Schroedl
Upper Creek Archaeology, by Gregory A. Waselkov and Marvin T. Smith
The Lower Creeks: Origins and Early History, by John E. Worth
Archaeological Perspectives on Florida Seminole Ethnogenesis, by Brent R. Weisman
This title is published in conjunction with the Society for Historical Archaeology.
Bonnie G. McEwan is director of archaeology at Mission San Luis in Tallahassee, Florida. Her publications include
The Spanish Missions of La Florida,
The Apalachee Indians and Mission San Luis (with John H. Hann), and numerous monographs and journal articles.