When Europeans battled for control over North America in the eighteenth century, American Indians were caught in the cross fire. Two such peoples, the Alabamas and Coushattas, made the difficult decision to migrate from their ancestral lands and thereby preserve their world on their own terms. In this book, Sheri Marie Shuck-Hall traces the gradual movement of the Alabamas and Coushattas from their origins in the Southeast to their nineteenth-century settlement in East Texas, exploring their motivations for migrating west and revealing how their shared experience affected their identity.

Sheri M. Shuck-Hall, an associate professor of history at Christopher Newport University, is a contributor to Mapping the Mississippian Shatter Zone: The Colonial Indian Slave Trade and Regional Instability in the American South.

ISBN: 9780806168937

Paperback

296 pages

5.5 x 8.5

University of Oklahoma Press, 2021