Yamasee: Indigenous Mobility, Placemaking, and Power in the Early South

The Yamasees were one of the most powerful forces in the early South, yet they remain one of the least understood Indigenous nations of the region. In the archaeological record, Yamasee homelands migrate and disappear; in colonial archives, their movements seem fractured and disconnected. Yet, as Denise Bossy reveals in Yamasee (Yvmvse), the first comprehensive study of the Yamasee Nation, much of this was by their own design.

Drawing from their deep ancestral practices, the Yamasees crafted...