Brothers and Friends: Kinship in Early America

by Natalie R. Inman

Book Overview

By following key families in Cherokee, Chickasaw, and Anglo-American societies from the Seven Years' War through 1845, this study illustrates how kinship networks--forged out of natal, marital, or fictive kinship relationships--enabled and directed the actions of their members as they decided the futures of their nations. Natalie R. Inman focuses in particular on the Chickasaw Colbert family, the Anglo-American Donelson family, and the Cherokee...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820357863
• ISBN13: 9780820357867
• Release Date: May 2020
• Publisher: University of Georgia Press
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.51 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"