![]() | The Four Deaths of Acorn Whistler: telling stories in colonial America Subjects: Acorn Whistler d. 1752; Acorn Whistler d. 1752 -- Death; Creek Indians -- Kings and rulers -- Biography; Cherokee Indians -- Violence against -- South Carolina -- Charleston; Southern States -- History -- Colonial period ca. 1600–1775; Great Britain --; Who was Acorn Whistler, and why did he have to die? A deeply researched analysis of a bloody eighteenth-century conflict and its tangled aftermath, The Four Deaths of Acorn Whistler unearths competing accounts of the events surrounding the death of this Creek Indian. Told from the perspectives of a colonial governor, a Creek Nation military leader, local Native Americans, and British colonists, each story speaks to issues that transcend the condemned man's fate: the collision of European and Native American cultures, the struggle of Indians to preserve traditional ways of life, and tensions within the British Empire as the American Revolution approached. Piker Joshua : Joshua Piker is Associate Professor of History and Second Century Associates Presidential Professor at the University of Oklahoma. |
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