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A 15 page discussion of the culture and social interaction which characterizes these Southeastern Native Americans. While the Creeks still maintain a distinctive culture today, their culture and social interactions (just as have those of all other Native American groups) have changed
over time. This paper examines the Creeks as they were shortly after contact with Europeans and observes that, while
their culture has changed in some respects, they remain a distinctive cultural group even today. Bibliography lists 15
sources.
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15 pages (~225 words per page)
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fascinated with the social and cultural lives of Native Americans practically since the first European contact with the cultures. One of the most important lessons that would ultimately come
to be appreciated by anthropologists was that the broad category of "Native American" encompassed, and encompasses, a wide diversity of distinct cultures. These cultures differ not only in highly
obvious aspects of their lifeways like what language they speak, what types of housing they live in, and how they dress; but also in more subtle ways. One of
the more interesting of these ways is the minute details of social interaction which occurs within the groups and between the group and other cultures. The Creek Indians offer
a particularly fascinating example of a people who are indeed Native American but who are first and foremost Creek in regard to both the vivid and the more subtle details
of their everyday cultural interaction. While the Creeks still maintain a distinctive culture today, their culture and social interactions (just as have those of all other Native American groups)
have changed over time. The intent of this paper is to examine the Creeks as they were shortly after contact with Europeans and to observe that, while their culture
has changed in some respects, they remain a distinctive cultural group even today. Originally located in the southeast in what are now the
states of Georgia and Alabama, the Creeks belong to the Muskogean linguistic group (Yenne 54). They share this classification, and indeed many of their customs with other southeastern Indians.
After contact with the European cultures who invaded their homelands, however, the Creek and other Southeastern Indians changed dramatically both in their culture and customs as well as in
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