essay
Remnants, renegades, and runaways: Seminole ethnogenesis reconsidered
History, power, and identity : ethnogenesis in the Americas,1492-1992 • Iowa City • Published In 1996 • Pages: 36-69
By: Sattler, Richard A..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Sattler reexamines the history and ethnogenesis of the Seminole, focussing on sociopolitical organization. He discusses the disintegration of the Muskogean chiefdoms in the Colonial Period and their replacement by less powerful polities. The Seminole emerged from the Lower Creek Kawita chiefdom, a multiethnic polity under Kawita suzerainty. Proto-Seminiole groups under Kawita sovereignty settled in northern Florida in the early 18th century. They eventually broke with the Kawita during the American Revolution when they sided with the British, contravening Creek neutrality. Refugees from the War of 1812 and 1814 Creek War swelled their ranks. The Seminole at this time formed three independent chiefdoms, which became most closely aligned during the Seminole Wars. Sattler argues that the Muskegean mode of socioplotical organization based on matrilineally inherited sacred power (HILISWA) among elite lineages allowed for the constitution and reconstitution of multiethnic polities.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Information sources listed in other works
- Cultural revitalization and ethnogenesis
- Territorial hierarchy
- Towns
- Chief executive
- External relations
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Seminole
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2003
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Eastern Woodlands
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Historian
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Ian Skoggard ; 2001
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- Not Specified
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1500-1840
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- southeastern United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Richard A. Sattler
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-265)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 95052415
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Seminole Indians