Mockingbird Song
Ikkemotubbe. A dispossessed American king. Called ‘‘l’Homme’’ (and sometimes ‘‘de l’homme’’) by his fosterbrother, a Chevalier o ...
a guitar. Now he had also Beale Street emporiums (notably the talismanic Lansky’s) that catered to black folks, and here he bega ...
to consider The King as conceivably the descendant of kings of another sort.^1 Elvis’s rise, meanwhile, occurred in the era of s ...
Interracial Native Americans called ‘‘Brassankles,’’ near Sommerville, South Carolina, . Photo by Marion Post Wolcott. Court ...
ple, permitted creation of towns, doubtlessly accelerated trading between peoples, and promoted social hierarchy and ambitious a ...
Much of the piedmont, indeed, was vacant in —perhaps a result of a very long drought that had devastated agriculture and des ...
De Soto’s routefrom Apalachee toApafalaya, (from CharlesHudson, Knights of Spain, Warriors ofthe Sun: Hernandode Soto and th ...
native towns. Nearly all were palisaded; a few apparently were moated as well—these were powerful and warring peoples—with platf ...
and lanced to death Indians brave enough to pursue the invaders onto open ground. Spanish reinforcements arrived; Mabila’s walls ...
would ‘‘go to a warm Country, where they had fat Boar and Roasting Ears all the Year long; these being the most excellent Food t ...
De Soto’s route from Apafalaya to Guachoya, – (from Charles Hudson,Knights of Spain, Warriors of the Sun: Hernando de So ...
southeastern Illinois (opposite St. Louis), Cahokia, the greatest of all Mis- sissippian sites, flourishing between ca. and ...
their way south again, then westward through the Arkansas River Valley. The farther west they traveled, the more marginal were t ...
jects without objection or interference. Quigualtam’s kingdom, a collec- tion of southwestern Mississippi towns centered on the ...
rent, watched helplessly. Quigualtam’s sailors, still singing songs and in- sults, turned on the brigantines and let fly a blizz ...
cult to imagine relatively primitive Woodland peoples inflicting such mis- chief, terror, wounding, and death upon the Spaniards ...
sources. Forests were scavenged for firewood and building materials as well as fired for crop fields and hunting parks. Growth d ...
there was a feast. The people were thus purified, and communal harmony was restored. Corn was the center. tEuropeans observed an ...
the opposite of European. Fields were not permanently established squares and rectangles with evenly spaced rows. There was no t ...
portion of the Indians’ method surely strengthens this narrative tradition of Indian garden farming.^10 Yet recently, scholars h ...
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