Article: Choctaw Genesis: 1500-1700.(Review)

Choctaw Genesis: 1500-1700, by Patricia Galloway. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1995. xv, 411 pp. Index. $65.00 cloth.

Early European maps of the southeast, if viewed in the chronological order of their drafting, seem to suggest that the Choctaws emerged out of nowhere in the last half of the seventeenth century. Historians of the tribe, facing a paucity of evidence, have generally treated the origins of the Choctaws as an impenetrable mystery. In Choctaw Genesis, however, Patricia Galloway pulls a persuasive story of the tribe's beginnings out of the evidentiary vortex of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Her strategy, she declares early on, "is ...

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