Author: André Joseph PenicautPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
Fleur de Lys and Calumet, Being the Pénicaut Narrative of French Adventure in Louisiana. Translated from French Manuscripts... by Richebourg Gaillard McWilliams,...
Author: André Joseph PenicautPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
Fleur de Lys and Calumet. Being the Penicaut narrative of French adventure in Louisiana
Author: André PénicautFleur de Lys and Calumet
Author: André PénicautFleur de Lys and Calumet
Author: André PénicautPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Louisiana
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
CALUMET FLEUR DE LYS
Author: WALTHALL JOHN APublisher: Smithsonian Books (DC)
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
"Despite increased research interest in the interaction of native North American peoples and Europeans, little attention has been directed toward Indian-French interactions--even though for more than a century the French controlled an area of the interior more than twice the size of the combined North American territories of Britain and Spain." "Calumet and Fleur-de-Lys focuses on historic Native American sites and archaeological evidence of native interaction with the French from the landing of Jean Nicollet in Green Bay in 1634 to the surrender of French America to the British in 1765. It integrates, for the first time, historical documents of the French politicians, explorers, priests, and traders with the archaeological record of numerous midcontinental native and French colonial sites. The essays cover the full range of French America--from the mouth of the Mississippi to the Great Lakes region--and examine topics as diverse as the protohistoric native cultures of the Midwest, French traders among the Sioux of northern Minnesota, Indian-French military relations in Louisiana and on the Wabash, the Indian deerskin trade of the Southeast, Huron refugees in Michigan, and Illini hunting camps and villages in Illinois." "Most previous research into French America, including Francis Parkman's classic histories, has centered on "great men"--LaSalle, Marquette, Joliet, and Nicollet. Calumet and Fleur-de-Lys demonstrates the potential of the archaeological record to expand the history of native cultures and Indian-French relations in the contact era."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Voices of the Old South
Author: Alan GallayPublisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820315664
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
Eyewitness accounts intended to introduce readers to a wide variety of primary literary sources for studying the Old South.
Making an Atlantic World
Author: James Taylor CarsonPublisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN: 1572334797
Category : Acculturation
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
"The author contends that each of the three groups involved - the first people, the invading people, and the enslaved people - possessed a particular worldview that they had to adapt to each other to face the challenges brought about by contact."--BOOK JACKET.
Epidemics and Enslavement
Author: Paul KeltonPublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 0803215576
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
Tracing the pathology of early European encounters with Native peoples of the Southeast, this work concludes that, while indigenous peoples suffered from an array of ailments before contact, Natives had their most significant experience with new germs long after initial contacts in the sixteenth century.
The Great Power of Small Nations
Author: Elizabeth N. EllisPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 151282318X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
In The Great Power of Small Nations, Elizabeth N. Ellis (Peoria) tells the stories of the many smaller Native American nations that shaped the development of the Gulf South. Based on extensive archival research and oral histories, Ellis’s narrative chronicles how diverse Indigenous peoples—including Biloxis, Choctaws, Chitimachas, Chickasaws, Houmas, Mobilians, and Tunicas—influenced and often challenged the growth of colonial Louisiana. The book centers on questions of Native nation-building and international diplomacy, and it argues that Native American migration and practices of offering refuge to migrants in crisis enabled Native nations to survive the violence of colonization. Indeed, these practices also made them powerful. When European settlers began to arrive in Indigenous homelands at the turn of the eighteenth century, these small nations, or petites nations as the French called them, pulled colonists into their political and social systems, thereby steering the development of early Louisiana. In some cases, the same practices that helped Native peoples withstand colonization in the eighteenth century, including frequent migration, living alongside foreign nations, and welcoming outsiders into their lands, have made it difficult for their contemporary descendants to achieve federal acknowledgment and full rights as Native American peoples. The Great Power of Small Nations tackles questions of Native power past and present and provides a fresh examination of the formidable and resilient Native nations who helped shape the modern Gulf South.
Jockomo
Author: Shane LiefPublisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 1496825926
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Jockomo: The Native Roots of Mardi Gras Indians celebrates the transcendent experience of Mardi Gras, encompassing both ancient and current traditions of New Orleans. The Mardi Gras Indians are a renowned and beloved fixture of New Orleans public culture. Yet very little is known about the indigenous roots of their cultural practices. For the first time, this book explores the Native American ceremonial traditions that influenced the development of the Mardi Gras Indian cultural system. Jockomo reveals the complex story of exchanges that have taken place over the past three centuries, generating new ways of singing and speaking, with many languages mixing as people’s lives overlapped. Contemporary photographs by John McCusker and archival images combine to offer a complementary narrative to the text. From the depictions of eighteenth-century Native American musical processions to the first known photo of Mardi Gras Indians, Jockomo is a visual feast, displaying the evolution of cultural traditions throughout the history of New Orleans. By the beginning of the twentieth century, Mardi Gras Indians had become a recognized local tradition. Over the course of the next one hundred years, their unique practices would move from the periphery to the very center of public consciousness as a quintessentially New Orleanian form of music and performance, even while retaining some of the most ancient features of Native American culture and language. Jockomo offers a new way of seeing and hearing the blended legacies of New Orleans.