Contents

Message from the Editor—Alyson L. Greiner

Ethnogenesis and Cultural Geography—Bella Bychkova Jordan and Terry G. Jordan-Bychkov

Defining American Homelands: A Creek Nation Example, 1828-1907—Douglas A. Hurt

Microbreweries as Tools of Local Identity—Steven M. Schnell and Joseph F. Reese

Not Just Jello and Hot Dishes:Representative Foods of Minnesota—Barbara G. Shortridge

Competing Identities and Contested Places: Mormons in Nauvoo and Voree—William Norton

In Memoriam: Louis Seig, 1931–2003—Alyson L. Greiner

Book Reviews