Searching for the Bright Path: The Mississippi Choctaws from Prehistory to Removal

by James Taylor Carson

Book Overview

Blending an engaging narrative style with broader theoretical considerations, James Taylor Carson offers the most complete history to date of the Mississippi Choctaws. Tracing the Choctaws from their origins in the Mississippian cultures of late prehistory to the early nineteenth century, Carson shows how the Choctaws struggled to adapt to life in a New World altered radically by contact while retaining their sense of identity and place. Despite changes...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803264178
• ISBN13: 9780803264175
• Release Date: November 2003
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 185 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"