TY - JOUR
AB - Book Reviews 171 the power vacuum left by the Illinois Indians o’ us) community forged a regional hierarchy demise, Morrissey identifies them as both the that relegated other, neighboring com - muni westernmost Algonquians and the most east - ties to a tributary status” (p. 30). Beck departs ern prairie Indians. As the Fur Trade Wars from interpretations that frame Mis-sissip pian cultures as disparate communities that pushed more Algonquians west, the Illinois, concentrated into complex chiefdoms. These having already crossed the Mississippi and r - e interpretations hold that those inhere-ntly un turned, awaited with replacement slaves and stable polities, upon reaching their apexes, new place-based lifeways. Accustomed to tran - broke into smaller groups, which repeated the sition and adaptation, the Illinois profited in process by coalescing into new chiefdoms. The the postcontact world in ways few tribes could. demographic catastrophes produced by E - uro Moreover, Morrissey notes the shifting roles of pean diseases during the sixteenth century women and, later, Africans in these communi - permanently disrupted these cycles, leaving ties, populations often excluded from studies behind less complex social formations. Beck such as this. argues instead that Mississippian chiefdoms, However, the Illinois could do 
TI - Chiefdoms, Collapse, and Coalescence in the Early American South
JF - The Journal of American History
DO - 10.1093/jahist/jaw036
DA - 2016-06-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/chiefdoms-collapse-and-coalescence-in-the-early-american-south-GfBv0fTCgS
SP - 171
EP - 172
VL - 103
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
ER -