Virtually all written accounts of Native American history of the southeastern United States came from Europeans. This book, however, filters the history of this place through a Native American perspective.

The author of this narrative is of both Choctaw and European descent. In Native Land the story is enhanced by her own family's ethnic legacy recounted to her by an uncle. This personal history extends from the time of Hernando de Soto's encounter with native tribes until the establishment of Mississippi Territory at the end of the American Revolution.