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Increases in the size and number of household food storage facilities, greater access to Euroamerican trade goods, a decrease in domestic structure size, and changes in settlement structure are shown to represent the desire of individual households to garner increased social and economic independence for themselves at the expense of existing cultural institutions. Such changes represented significant challenges to the power of social elites and the principle of hereditary social inequality, threatening the basis of traditional chiefly authority. Escalating reliance upon strategies designed to advance the economic status of households is shown to be a powerful explanatory model for the cultural changes experienced by the historic Creek. 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