Theda Perdue is professor of history and American studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her publications include Slavery and the Evolution of Cherokee Society, 1540-1865 (1979); Nations Remembered: An Oral History of the Five Civilized Tribes (1980); Cherokee Editor (1983); Native Carolinians (1985); The Cherokees (1988); Cherokee Women: Gender and Culture Change, 1700-1835 (1998); Sifters: Native American Womens Lives (2001); The Columbia Guide to American Indians of the Southeast (2001); and Mixed Blood Indians: Racial Construction in the Early South (2003). Michael D. Green is professor of history and American studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His publications include The Creeks: A Critical Bibliography (1979); The Politics of Indian Removal: Creek Government and Society in Crisis (1985); The Creeks: A Tribal History (1990); and The Columbia Guide to American Indians of the Southeast (2001).