Download or read book A Spirited Resistance written by Gregory Evans Dowd and published by Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Departing from the traditional confines of the history of American Indians, Dowd carefully draws on ethnographic sources to recapture the beliefs, thoughts, and actions of four principal Indian nations--Delaware, Shawnee, Cherokee, and Creek.