| Contents |
Introduction: mapping the Mississippian shatter zone / Robbie Ethridge -- Events as seen from the north: the Iroquois and colonial slavery / William A. Fox -- From refugees to slave traders: the transformation of the Westo Indians / Maureen Meyers -- "Caryinge awaye their corne and children": the effects of Westo slave raids on the indians of the lower south / Eric E. Bowne -- Catawba coalescence and the shattering of the Carolina piedmont, 1540-1675 / Robin A. Beck, Jr -- "Indians refusing to carry burdens": understanding the success of Catawba political, military, and settlement strategies in colonial Carolina / Mary Elizabeth Fitts, Charles L. Heath -- "The greatest travelers in America": Shawnee survival in the shatter zone / Stephen Warren, Randolph Noe -- Tracing the origins of the early creeks, 1050-1700 CE / Ned J. Jenkins -- Alabama and Coushatta diaspora and coalescence in the Mississippian shatter zone / Sheri M. Shuck-Hall -- Violence in a shattered world / Matthew H. Jennings -- Razing Florida: the Indian slave trade and the devastation of Spanish Florida, 1659-1715 / John E. Worth -- Shattered and infected: epidemics and the origins of the Yamasee war, 1696-1715 / Paul Kelton -- Choctaws at the border of the shatter zone: spheres of exchange and spheres of social value / Patricia Galloway -- Shatter zone shock waves along the lower Mississippi / Marvin D. Jeter -- Picking up the pieces: Natchez coalescence in the shatter zone / George Edward Milne. |
