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Article: Okfuskee: A Creek Indian Town in Colonial America.(Book Review)
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- Journal of Social History
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- December 22, 2005
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Okfuskee: A Creek Indian Town in Colonial America. By Joshua Piker (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2004. 284 pp. $39.22).
Johua Piker's Okfuskee is a community history that depicts Okfuskee, a Creek town, as part of an inviting, dangerous, and innovative market economy. Okfuskee's location on the major trading path connecting Upper Creek towns to the British colonies in the east subjected it to commercial forces, or what Piker calls, "peculiar connections" from the late eighteenth century. In addition to exploring Okfuskee's history, Piker's related objective is to "trace the points in their histories where Native and Euro-American communities ...