The Tree That Bends

"Wickman's purposes are to establish a cultural continuum between the Mississippian peoples and the Southeastern inhabitants she labels the 'Maskoki,' and to elaborate a new interpretive paradigm for ethnohistory. Using deconstruction as her tool, Wickman considers earlier researchers as entrapped in the rhetoric of the Conquest and thus unable to perceive the truth."

—Choice

"It was with a great deal of pleasure and pride that I read this volume. History—especially the history of the Southeast—has tried for centuries to write me and my people off the face of the earth, as if we had never existed. Dr. Wickman, however, has finally put our history in proper perspective. Many of my people say that white people are white because they have no guilt but, with this book, Dr. Wickman has given me back my dignity."

—James E. Billie, Chairman, Seminole Tribe of Florida