Rivers of Power
Peach, Steven
Although the Creeks belong to a full-fledged nation today, the concept of the "nation" meant little to their ancestors in the Native South. Rather, as Steven Peach contends in Rivers of Power, in early America the Creeks of present-day Georgia and Alabama conceptualized rivers as the basis of power, leadership, and governance.
An original work of Indigenous ethnohistory, Peach's book explores the implications of this riverine approach to pow...