The spider gorgets illustrate a traditional story, common to many southeastern tribes from the Atlantic Coast to Missouri, about the water spider bringing fire to humanity.

Some basic content about the removal of other southeastern tribes to lands west of the Mississippi River is included.

The story is about the southeastern tribes and Indians who have been playing baseball and fast-pitch softball since the 1880s in Indian Territory, now Oklahoma.

Benjamin Hawkins was the federal agent assigned to the southeastern tribes in the 1790s and advised the tribes to take up slaveholding.

The Algonquian speaking Shawnee have a relatively complex style influenced by the nearby southeastern tribes.

Skandranon finished the annotated chapter on social organization among the southeastern tribes, and luxuriated in the attention Gesten was giving his recently-battered crest.

In the 1830s, the federal government forcibly deported the southeastern tribes to their own reservations in the Indian territory (now Oklahoma) via the "Trail of Tears".

Members of the Natchez Nation joined the Cherokee Nation, as did other southeastern tribes in the 18th century.

By the end of the decade, the relocation of the southeastern Indian tribes to Oklahoma was largely complete.

The Yamasee War of 1715-1717 caused major changes among the southeastern tribes.