By extension, this project also seeks to understand how popular culture has continued to bring their stories to the forefront for a new generation and the influence it has in expanding the legends. By carefully studying Claire Chennault and Gregory Boyington and the strategies they implemented within their units for missions one can better understand what made their units so successful. This project seeks to explore the relationship between Claire Lee Chennault and Gregory “Pappy” Boyington and their respective units. A synthesis of this data supports the view that Mississippian warfare was fueled by competition for status within societies, that warclubs were the primary symbol of warfare and the cosmologically sanctioned status of the warrior, and that they symbolized the cosmologically charted role of the warrior to compete for status and participate in warfare. Persistence into the historic period of the symbolic use of warclubs in the Green Corn Ceremony, the ball game, and the Redstick uprising, as well as their use in warfare, is examined. The warclub is also analyzed as a symbol in Southeastern cosmology, especially of the Thunder deity, which was used to symbolize the status and cosmological authority of warriors and chiefs. Warclub types and techniques of use are examined, and evidence of their use as a symbol of the status of Mississippian military elites and chiefs is presented. Ethnohistorical and archeological data, including historical descriptions of warclubs and warclub use, ethnographic reports, Southeastern myths, Mississippian iconography, skeletal fractures of Mississippian burials, and archaeological specimens of warclubs are analyzed in order to determine the significance of warclubs in Mississippian and early historic Southeastern Indian societies.
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