Introduction

Over the past generation, an impressive body of scholarship has drawn scholarly attention to the Native South. Ethnohistorians have been at the forefront of efforts to reevaluate Native American political, social, and cultural history in what is today the Southeastern United States. ¹ At the same time, scholars from a range of disciplines have started conversations that delve more deeply into the complexities of identity, trade and diplomacy, and migration and resettlement among Southeastern Indian communities. ² As a result of this scholarly attention, a still growing historiography that highlights the dynamism of life in the Native South between the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries continues to expand.