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SCHOOL: ADVISORS: COMMITTEE MEMBERS: MPACT Status: Fully Complete Title: The invention of the Creek Nation: A political history of the Creek Indians in the South\'s Imperial Era, 1540--1763 Abstract: \"The Invention of the Creek Nation: A Political History of the Creek Indians in the South\'s Imperial Era, 1540-1763\" examines Creek Indian political activity in an era defined by imperial competition between Spain, Britain, and France for territory now known as the Southeastern United States. This dissertation challenges the argument that a centralized \"Creek Confederacy\" emerged in the early eighteenth century as a defensive response to colonialism. It demonstrates instead that local kinship political units persisted well into the eighteenth century, promoting political factionalism within and between the various Creek communities. Factionalism, this dissertation suggests, enabled the Creeks to cultivate alliances with the Spanish and the French, which empowered the Creeks to contain British hegemony prior to the signing of the Treaty of Paris in 1763. This work concludes that the \"Creek Nation\" existed primarily (though not exclusively) in the minds of British colonial officials, who invented the term to bind the Creeks to the British \"Chain of Friendship,\" treaty protocol which, in theory, made Britains Indian allies dependent subjects of the British crown. |
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