A Pattern of Violence: Muscogee (Creek Indian) Women in the Eighteenth Century and Today’s MMIWG – The Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women & Girls
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
10-23-2020
Publisher
Wiley
Source Publication
Historian
Source ISSN
0018-2370
Abstract
This article details how the current epidemic of violence against Indigenous women in North America – as well as Native-led movements like Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women & Girls (MMIWG) – is connected to and rooted in the historical past. Using the case of the Muscogee (Creek) peoples and their interactions with the Spanish, French, English, and Americans in the eighteenth-century, this manuscript grapples with the acts of sexual violence enacted by Euro-Americans, how Muscogee men and women responded to such violence, and the legacies of such violence today. The author intends to spark a conversation among historians, particularly scholars of the American South, to finally extend the conversations about sexual violence to the history of Indigenous Peoples.
Recommended Citation
Rindfleisch, Bryan C., "A Pattern of Violence: Muscogee (Creek Indian) Women in the Eighteenth Century and Today’s MMIWG – The Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women & Girls" (2020). History Faculty Research and Publications. 304.
https://epublications.marquette.edu/hist_fac/304
Comments
Historian, Vol. 82, No. 3 (October 23, 2020): 346-362. DOI.