Spatial Personas: A New Technique for Interpreting Colonial Encounters in Colonial North America

This article by proposing the theoretical tool of a ‘spatial persona’ hopes to situate space, its definition and movement within and across it, as a tool of understanding for the complex relations that exist within colonial contact. By taking a confused moment of interaction from the eighteenth century American southeast it will detail how spatial understandings can help unravel uncertainty to give a more nuanced explanation of European Native American interaction.