United States: From Sikwa To Swine: The Hog In Cherokee Culture And Society, 1750-1840

United States: From Sikwa To Swine: The Hog In Cherokee Culture And Society, 1750-1840 Ethan Moore, 2011   In lieu of an abstract, here is a preview of the article.   According to Luys Hernandez de Biedma, one of the chronicler's of Hernando de Soto's sixteenth-century expedition to Florida, the explorers "took with them a large drove of pigs which had been brought over in the fleet to meet any emergency." The prodigious descendants of those pigs, for better or worse, were to become one of...

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