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Fall Conference #2: Euchee (Yuchi) History Symposium
At the beginning of October (8-9), I participated in the first even Euchee (Yuchi) History Symposium, an event organized by the Euchee (Yuchi) Tribe of Indians and held in conjunction with the tribe’s...
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First Georgia Reports of Yuchis, 1733
Introduction In the summer of 2004 I was beginning to coordinate a project focused on Yuchi (Euchee) history during the period before removal to Indian Territory (present-day Oklahoma). This effort...
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Oklahoma Native Language and History Projects Making Progress
A round up of some good news Oklahoma. The team at the Euchee (Yuchi) History Project has published an account of the project’s work in the prestigious journal Native South. Native South is published...
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Coconut Rattles in Florida and Oklahoma
The diversity of materials used by Native peoples in the Americas to make hand rattles is pretty staggering. Among the farming peoples of the Southwest, Plains, Northeast and Southeast, gourds are one...
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Yuchi Indian Histories Before the Removal Era
There has been a real posting drought lately here at Shreds and Patches. In part this is due to a hyper abundance of matters worthy of posting about. So much has been going on that there has not been...
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Yuchi Folklore: Cultural Expression in a Southeastern Native American Community
A quick note to report that Yuchi Folklore: Cultural Expression in Southeastern Native American Community is now in print and available from the University of Oklahoma Press (its publisher),...
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Good News Roundup
There is way too much stuff going on in my life and work these days. Most of it is really good stuff, but it is hard to keep up. Before moving on to new reporting, here are some good news highlights...
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Two Euchee (Yuchi) Baskets in the Collections of the Philbrook Museum of Art
The basketry traditions of the Native South have experienced divergent histories from a common regional tradition of work basketry. Among the North Carolina Cherokee, for instance, the indigenous river...
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Frank G. Speck Visits the Euchee, Stockbridge, and Seneca Students at Haskell...
Among the objects cataloged as Creek in the collections of the National Museum of Natural History is a doll made by Leona Tiger while she was a student at the Haskell Institute (now Haskell Indian...
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