Ocmulgee National Monument: A Brief History with Field Notes

In this brief illustrated guide to the national monument located in Macon, Georgia, that conserves ancient Mississippian mounds and 12,000 years of human presence along the Ocmulgee River, Matthew Jennings and Gordon Johnston, like G.D. Pope and Lonnie Davis in earlier guides, introduce readers to the park's history, archaeology, Native cultures, and landscape. Jennings both updates the history and adds an account of the intercultural exchange that the park has brought about between the post-removal Muscogee Creek people native to the area and Georgians of the last several generations. This new guide braids into Jennings's concise historical overview Gordon Johnston's field notes and poems, written while Johnston was writer-in-residence at Ocmulgee National Monument, about the park's woods, streams, artifacts, and wildlife. The book includes transcriptions of oral stories by William Harjo (Muscogee) and an array of photographs and images, many of them new, that span the park's history, including Ocmulgee, an installation by artist Hock E Aye Vi Edgar Heap of Birds (Cheyenne/Arapaho) in Atlanta in 2005.

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Ocmulgee National Monument: A Brief History with Field Notes

In this brief illustrated guide to the national monument located in Macon, Georgia, that conserves ancient Mississippian mounds and 12,000 years of human presence along the Ocmulgee River, Matthew Jennings and Gordon Johnston, like G.D. Pope and Lonnie Davis in earlier guides, introduce readers to the park's history, archaeology, Native cultures, and landscape. Jennings both updates the history and adds an account of the intercultural exchange that the park has brought about between the post-removal Muscogee Creek people native to the area and Georgians of the last several generations. This new guide braids into Jennings's concise historical overview Gordon Johnston's field notes and poems, written while Johnston was writer-in-residence at Ocmulgee National Monument, about the park's woods, streams, artifacts, and wildlife. The book includes transcriptions of oral stories by William Harjo (Muscogee) and an array of photographs and images, many of them new, that span the park's history, including Ocmulgee, an installation by artist Hock E Aye Vi Edgar Heap of Birds (Cheyenne/Arapaho) in Atlanta in 2005.

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Ocmulgee National Monument: A Brief History with Field Notes

Ocmulgee National Monument: A Brief History with Field Notes

Ocmulgee National Monument: A Brief History with Field Notes

Ocmulgee National Monument: A Brief History with Field Notes

Overview

In this brief illustrated guide to the national monument located in Macon, Georgia, that conserves ancient Mississippian mounds and 12,000 years of human presence along the Ocmulgee River, Matthew Jennings and Gordon Johnston, like G.D. Pope and Lonnie Davis in earlier guides, introduce readers to the park's history, archaeology, Native cultures, and landscape. Jennings both updates the history and adds an account of the intercultural exchange that the park has brought about between the post-removal Muscogee Creek people native to the area and Georgians of the last several generations. This new guide braids into Jennings's concise historical overview Gordon Johnston's field notes and poems, written while Johnston was writer-in-residence at Ocmulgee National Monument, about the park's woods, streams, artifacts, and wildlife. The book includes transcriptions of oral stories by William Harjo (Muscogee) and an array of photographs and images, many of them new, that span the park's history, including Ocmulgee, an installation by artist Hock E Aye Vi Edgar Heap of Birds (Cheyenne/Arapaho) in Atlanta in 2005.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780881466478
Publisher: Mercer University Press
Publication date: 03/01/2018
Pages: 224
Sales rank: 1,076,562
Product dimensions: 5.40(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Matthew Jennings is associate professor of History at Middle Georgia State University. He is the author of NEW WORLDS OF VIOLENCE: CULTURES AND CONQUESTS IN THE EARLY AMERICAN SOUTHEAST and editor of THE FLOWER HUNTER AND THE PEOPLE, a collection of naturalist William Bartram’s writings on the Native Southeast. Jennings has published pictorial histories of Ocmulgee National Monument and Macon, Georgia (with Stephen Taylor). Gordon Johnston is professor and director of the Creative Writing Program at Mercer University. He is author of GRAVITY'S LIGHT GRIP, a poetry chapbook, and has published in The Georgia Review, Southern Poetry Review, and other journals and anthologies. Johnston also makes clay pages—poems written in clay and wood-fired by Roger Jamison onto stoneware pages. He has been writer-in-residence at ONM since 2012.

Table of Contents

About The Book's Origin, Style, and Focus xiii

A Note on Terminology xv

Acknowledgments xvii

Part 1 Introduction and Overview 1

Part 2 Arriving And Forging Societies 13

Part 3 Making Monuments 31

Part 4 Sitting Down 63

Part 5 Losing and Finding Ocmulgee 99

Part 6 Keeping Ocmulgee 135

Part 7 Ocmulgee to Okmulgee 169

Sources And Further Reading 179

Index 191

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