Red Eagle's Children: Weatherford vs. Weatherford et al. (Contemporary American Indian Studies)

J. Anthony Paredes (Editor), J. Anthony Paredes (Introduction by), Judith Knight (Editor), Judith Knight (Contributions by), Robbie Ethridge (Contributions by), Gregory A. Waselkov (Contributions by), David I. Durham (Contributions by), Nina Gail Thrower (Contributions by), Paul M. Pruitt, Jr. (Contributions by), Mr. Robert G. Thrower (Contributions by), J. Anthony Paredes (Contributions by)

$39.95

Publication Date: October 16th, 2012

Publisher:

University Alabama Press

ISBN:

9780817317706

Pages:

232

Description

Red Eagle’s Children presents the legal proceedings in an inheritance dispute that serves as an unexpected window on the intersection of two cultural and legal systems: Creek Indian and Euro-American.

Case 1299: Weatherford vs. Weatherford et al. appeared in the Chancery Court of Mobile in 1846 when William “Red Eagle” Weatherford’s son by the Indian woman Supalamy sued his half siblings fathered by Weatherford with two other Creek women, Polly Moniac and Mary Stiggins, for a greater share of Weatherford’s estate. While the court recognized William Jr. as the son of William Sr., he nevertheless lost his petition for inheritance due to the lack of legal evidence concerning the marriage of his biological mother to William Sr. The case, which went to the Alabama Supreme Court in 1851, provides a record of an attempt to interrelate and, perhaps, manipulate differences in cultures as they played out within the ritualized, arcane world of antebellum Alabama jurisprudence.
Although the case has value in the classic mold of salvage ethnography of Creek Indian culture, Red Eagle’s Children, edited by J. Anthony Paredes and Judith Knight, shows that its more enduring value lies in being a source for historical ethnography—that is, for anthropological analyses of cultural dynamics of the past
events that complement the narratives of professional historians.
Contributors
David I. Durham / Robbie Ethridge / Judith
Knight / J. Anthony Paredes / Paul M. Pruitt
Jr. / Nina Gail Thrower / Robert Thrower /
Gregory A. Waselkov

About the Author

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J. Anthony Paredes is a professor emeritus of anthropology at Florida State University and is the founding series editor of the Contemporary American Indian Series at The University of Alabama Press. He is the coeditor of Anthropologists and Indians in the New South and Classics of Practicing Anthropology: 1978-1998, among other books.

Judith Knight is retired from The University of Alabama, where she worked at the Alabama Museum of Natural History for six years and at The University of Alabama Press for another twenty-five years, primarily as a senior acquisitions editor specializing in anthropology, archaeology, and ethnohistory.

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Praise for Red Eagle's Children: Weatherford vs. Weatherford et al. (Contemporary American Indian Studies)

“Red Eagle’s Children is a very interesting book, and a well-conceived one. It touches the necessary bases in terms of providing background information and analysis of the case in question, and its editors have recruited a very strong roster of specialists to write the individual chapters.”
—Joshua Piker, author of Okfuskee: A Creek Indian Town in Colonial America

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