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The Westos were the Rickaheckrians driven from VA
Source: New Paths Beaten: Verner Crane's The Southern Frontier #564
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Crane later took direct aim at Swanton's theory that equated the predatory Indian band known as the "Westos" with a contemporary migratory group known as the "Yuchis." Crane's more meticulous research revealed instead that the Westos were not Yuchis but a displaced Erie group known as the "Rickaheckrians," who had been driven south from Virginia in the 1650s. 6 Though Swanton himself refused to accept Crane's argument, most today recognize that Crane got it right, and anthropologists now understand that historical method has much to recommend it. It would therefore be no stretch to say that Crane's work foreshadows the work of Charles Hudson and other ethnohistorians, who over the course of the last forty years have developed a research strategy that employs both ethnographic and historical methods.
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