The shaping of a Creek (Muscogee) homeland in Indian territory, 1828--1907.

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dc.contributor.advisorNostrand, Richard L.,en_US
dc.contributor.authorHurt, Douglas A.en_US
dc.date.accessioned2013-08-16T12:30:54Z
dc.date.available2013-08-16T12:30:54Z
dc.date.issued2000en_US
dc.description.abstractFederal authorities removed the Creek (Muscogee) Nation from Alabama and Georgia to Indian Territory (Oklahoma) beginning in 1828. By the time of statehood in 1907, the Creek had shaped a new homeland in a ten-county area south of Tulsa. This study discusses the transfer of place names, tribal towns, ceremonial grounds, rural churches and other elements that characterize the new homeland. The role of Anglo intruders and individual allotments complicate the story, yet bonding to a new place, especially through the institution of the Creek tribal town, is clear. The study goes beyond the Creek to identify five new parameters by which geographers might better define homelands: a tightly knit and spatially integrated ethnic community, a limited geographic territory, a distinctive cultural landscape, an emotional loyalty that includes heightened feelings of attachment, home, and compulsions to defend, and a partial social or spatial segregation from other communities in order to maintain unique forms of cultural life and history.en_US
dc.format.extentviii, 371 leaves :en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11244/5966
dc.noteAdviser: Richard L. Nostrand.en_US
dc.noteSource: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 61-04, Section: A, page: 1549.en_US
dc.subjectCreek Indians Social life and customs 19th century.en_US
dc.subjectIndians of North America Relocation.en_US
dc.subjectIndians of North America Indian Territory.en_US
dc.subjectGeography.en_US
dc.subjectCreek Indians Oklahoma.en_US
dc.subjectHistory, United States.en_US
dc.thesis.degreePh.D.en_US
dc.thesis.degreeDisciplineDepartment of Geography and Environmental Sustainabilityen_US
dc.titleThe shaping of a Creek (Muscogee) homeland in Indian territory, 1828--1907.en_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
ou.groupCollege of Atmospheric & Geographic Sciences::Department of Geography and Environmental Sustainability
ou.identifier(UMI)AAI9968103en_US

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