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The History of Choctaw, Chickasaw and Natchez Indians - Abridged by H B Cushman (Paperback)
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Highlights
- As the son of missionaries among the Choctaw Indians in Mississippi, H. B. Cushman witnessed their heartbreaking removal from the area in the 1830s.
- Author(s): H B Cushman
- 512 Pages
- Social Science, Ethnic Studies
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About the Book
primary source material on the Choctaws, Chickasaws, and NatchezBook Synopsis
As the son of missionaries among the Choctaw Indians in Mississippi, H. B. Cushman witnessed their heartbreaking removal from the area in the 1830s. Later in life, he chronicled their culture and criticized their exploitation by whites in his historic History of the Choctaw, Chickasaw and Natchez Indians. He spent six years renewing contacts, visiting cemeteries, observing Indian councils, and studying Indian records in the original languages. Published in 1899, his history is valuable for his firsthand observations on the removal and later history of the Choctaws and Chickasaws as well as for its material on the Natchez Indians, about whom little is in print.
In 1961, historian Angie Debo abridged and edited the work to focus Cushman's notoriously rambling prose. Now, a new introduction by Clara Sue Kidwell brings light to Cushman's historic work for yet another new generation of scholars.
Review Quotes
"There is a lot to be learned from [Cushman's] writing. . . . On one level the book is a rich lode of primary source material on the Choctaws, Chickasaws, and Natchez, but it also expresses the political activism that energized early scholarship in native North American history." James Taylor Carson, in Ethnohistory