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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Solid Work of Native American, Religious and U.S. History
Do not pay attention to the other reviewer's (Lilley Fleming) unsubstantiated critique of the author's historical interpretation or writing ability. This solid monograph has been rightly praised by Charles Hudson, the American Historical Review, the Journal of American History, and Tony Hillerman (a guy who knows a lot about good writing). As a result of...
Published on February 23, 2007 by Along Red River of the North
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7 of 25 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Lacking in Literary Merit
It is often said that history is written by those who win it. In Joel Martin's Sacred Revolt, the effort is made to stem the tide of assumption, broad generalization, and one-sided commentary of Southeastern American history. Unfortunately, this noble idea is unattainable in a historical monograph that falls prey to the same falliabilities as the histories it critiques...
Published on November 20, 2002 by Lilley Fleming
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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Solid Work of Native American, Religious and U.S. History,
By Along Red River of the North "JMS" (Moorhead, MN) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Sacred Revolt: The Muskogees' Struggle for a New World (Paperback)
Do not pay attention to the other reviewer's (Lilley Fleming) unsubstantiated critique of the author's historical interpretation or writing ability. This solid monograph has been rightly praised by Charles Hudson, the American Historical Review, the Journal of American History, and Tony Hillerman (a guy who knows a lot about good writing).
As a result of intense European American encroachment on their lands (state of Georgia, Andy Jackson and local militias) and assimilationist (Christian missionaries, federal agents) pressures on their culture, some Muscogees (Creeks) initiated a prophetic religious revitalization ("Redstick") movement to regain power and shape the future according to their own beliefs. Martin's scholarship is based on substantial research that accords with a long line of "post-contact religious resistance" by various Native communities in American Indian history (e.g., Pueblo Revolt (1680), Neolin - the Lenape (Delaware) prophet in Pontiac's Revolt (1763), the Seneca Handsome Lake and the Longhouse Religion (1799), Tecumseh and his brother the Shawnee Prophet(1811), and the various Ghost Dance movements (1870s and 1890s). The only reason for the four-star rating is Martin's occassional lapses into academic jargon.
7 of 25 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Lacking in Literary Merit,
By Lilley Fleming (Columbia, MO) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Sacred Revolt: The Muskogees' Struggle for a New World (Paperback)
It is often said that history is written by those who win it. In Joel Martin's Sacred Revolt, the effort is made to stem the tide of assumption, broad generalization, and one-sided commentary of Southeastern American history. Unfortunately, this noble idea is unattainable in a historical monograph that falls prey to the same falliabilities as the histories it critiques. Due to the author being raised in the South,( born in Opelika, Alabama several miles from the actual site of the Battle of Horseshoe Bend of 1814) he is biased toward the subject. Martin's quest for the redemption of this particular piece of history is influenced greatly by his own beliefs. Interpreting, and thereby changing, history to suit his own needs makes this piece uncomfortably similar to the works it condemns. All this in additiion to an editor who seems to have given up half way through, has the reader questioning whether or not the author ever enrolled in English 101.
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Sacred Revolt: The Muskogees' Struggle for a New World by Joel W. Martin (Paperback - April 1, 1993)
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