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Author : Daniel H. Usner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Indians of North America
ISBN : OCLC:1391162541
Author : Daniel H. Usner, Jr.
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0803295634
During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the Native peoples inhabiting the Lower Mississippi Valley confronted increasing domination by colonial powers, disastrous reductions in population, and the threat of being marginalized by a new cotton economy. Their strategies of resistance and adaptation to these changes are brought to light in this perceptive study. An introductory overview of the historiography of Native peoples in the early Southeast examines how the study of Native-colonial relations has changed over the last century. Daniel H. Usner Jr. reevaluates the Natchez Indians? ill-fated relations with the French and the cultural effects of Native population losses from disease and warfare during the eighteenth century. Usner next examines in detail the social and economic relations the Native peoples forged in the face of colonial domination and demographic decline, and he reveals how Natives adapted to the cotton economy, which displaced their familiar social and economic networks of interaction with outsiders. Finally, Usner offers an intriguing excursion into cultural criticism, assessing the effects of popular images of Natives from this region.
Author : John Reed Swanton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1911
Category : Indians of North America
ISBN : STANFORD:36105118183024
Author : John R. Swanton
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2013-02-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780486148083
Richly illustrated study of Natchez, Muskhogean, Tunican, Chitimacha and Atakapa Indians, with comprehensive discussions of tribes' material culture, religion, language, social organization, as well as accounts of war, marriage, medicine, and other customs.
Author : James F. Barnett Jr.
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2007-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781604733099
The Natchez Indians: A History to 1735 is the story of the Natchez Indians as revealed through accounts of Spanish, English, and French explorers, missionaries, soldiers, and colonists, and in the archaeological record. Because of their strategic location on the Mississippi River, the Natchez Indians played a crucial part in the European struggle for control of the Lower Mississippi Valley. The book begins with the brief confrontation between the Hernando de Soto expedition and the powerful Quigualtam chiefdom, presumed ancestors of the Natchez. In the late seventeenth century, René-Robert Cavelier de La Salle's expedition met the Natchez and initiated sustained European encroachment, exposing the tribe to sickness and the dangers of the Indian slave trade. The Natchez Indians portrays the way that the Natchez coped with a rapidly changing world, became entangled with the political ambitions of two European superpowers, France and England, and eventually disappeared as a people. The author examines the shifting relationships among the tribe's settlement districts and the settlement districts' relationships with neighboring tribes and with the Europeans. The establishment of a French fort and burgeoning agricultural colony in their midst signaled the beginning of the end for the Natchez people. Barnett has written the most complete and detailed history of the Natchez to date.
Author : Daniel H. Usner Jr.
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807839966
In this pioneering book Daniel Usner examines the economic and cultural interactions among the Indians, Europeans, and African slaves of colonial Louisiana, including the province of West Florida. Rather than focusing on a single cultural group or on a particular economic activity, this study traces the complex social linkages among Indian villages, colonial plantations, hunting camps, military outposts, and port towns across a large region of pre-cotton South. Usner begins by providing a chronological overview of events from French settlement of the area in 1699 to Spanish acquisition of West Florida after the Revolution. He then shows how early confrontations and transactions shaped the formation of Louisiana into a distinct colonial region with a social system based on mutual needs of subsistence. Usner's focus on commerce allows him to illuminate the motives in the contest for empire among the French, English, and Spanish, as well as to trace the personal networks of communication and exchange that existed among the territory's inhabitants. By revealing the economic and social world of early Louisianians, he lays the groundwork for a better understanding of later Southern society.
Author : James F. Barnett Jr.
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 483 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2012-04-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781628469820
At the beginning of the eighteenth century, over twenty different American Indian tribal groups inhabited present-day Mississippi. Today, Mississippi is home to only one tribe, the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians. In Mississippi's American Indians, author James F. Barnett Jr. explores the historical forces and processes that led to this sweeping change in the diversity of the state's native peoples. The book begins with a chapter on Mississippi's approximately 12,000-year prehistory, from early hunter-gatherer societies through the powerful mound building civilizations encountered by the first European expeditions. With the coming of the Spanish, French, and English to the New World, native societies in the Mississippi region connected with the Atlantic market economy, a source for guns, blankets, and many other trade items. Europeans offered these trade materials in exchange for Indian slaves and deerskins, currencies that radically altered the relationships between tribal groups. Smallpox and other diseases followed along the trading paths. Colonial competition between the French and English helped to spark the Natchez rebellion, the Chickasaw-French wars, the Choctaw civil war, and a half-century of client warfare between the Choctaws and Chickasaws. The Treaty of Paris in 1763 forced Mississippi's pro-French tribes to move west of the Mississippi River. The Diaspora included the Tunicas, Houmas, Pascagoulas, Biloxis, and a portion of the Choctaw confederacy. In the early nineteenth century, Mississippi's remaining Choctaws and Chickasaws faced a series of treaties with the United States government that ended in destitution and removal. Despite the intense pressures of European invasion, the Mississippi tribes survived by adapting and contributing to their rapidly evolving world.
Author : Patricia K. Galloway
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2011-03-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781628469356
To most people it probably seems that La Salle and his men, permanently fixed in the pantheon of explorers of the North American continent, need little further introduction. The fact is that this whole early period of exploration and colonization by the French in the southeastern United States has received far less scholarly attention than the corresponding English and Spanish activities in the same area, and even the existing scholarship has failed to focus clearly upon the Indian tribes whose attitudes toward the European new comers were crucial to their very survival. In this collection of essays marking the tricentennial of René-Robert Cavelier de La Salle's 1682 expedition into the Lower Mississippi Valley, thirteen scholars from a variety of disciplines assess his legacy and the significance of French colonialism in the Southeast. These scholars in the fields of French colonial history and the ethnohistory of the Indians of the Louisiana Colony deal with a diversity of topics ranging from La Salle's expedition itself and its place in the context of New World colonialism in general to the interaction of French settlers with native Indian tribes.
Author : John Reed Swanton
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2022-10-26
Category : History
ISBN : 1015516203
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : James F. Barnett
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2012-04-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781617032462
At the beginning of the eighteenth century, over twenty different American Indian tribal groups inhabited present-day Mississippi. Today, Mississippi is home to only one tribe, the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians. In Mississippi’s American Indians, author James F. Barnett Jr. explores the historical forces and processes that led to this sweeping change in the diversity of the state’s native peoples. The book begins with a chapter on Mississippi’s approximately 12,000-year prehistory, from early hunter-gatherer societies through the powerful mound building civilizations encountered by the first European expeditions. With the coming of the Spanish, French, and English to the New World, native societies in the Mississippi region connected with the Atlantic market economy, a source for guns, blankets, and many other trade items. Europeans offered these trade materials in exchange for Indian slaves and deerskins, currencies that radically altered the relationships between tribal groups. Smallpox and other diseases followed along the trading paths. Colonial competition between the French and English helped to spark the Natchez rebellion, the Chickasaw-French wars, the Choctaw civil war, and a half-century of client warfare between the Choctaws and Chickasaws. The Treaty of Paris in 1763 forced Mississippi’s pro-French tribes to move west of the Mississippi River. The Diaspora included the Tunicas, Houmas, Pascagoulas, Biloxis, and a portion of the Choctaw confederacy. In the early nineteenth century, Mississippi’s remaining Choctaws and Chickasaws faced a series of treaties with the United States government that ended in destitution and removal. Despite the intense pressures of European invasion, the Mississippi tribes survived by adapting and contributing to their rapidly evolving world.
Author : John Reed Swanton
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1230412131
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1911 edition. Excerpt: ...of the Natchez chiefs, awaited us at the Little Gulf with 150 men in order to break our heads. This speech did not surprise me, because one of their minor chiefs, a friend of mine, had already warned me before leaving their village, although he had not spoken so clearly. I had already spoken of it to M. de la Loire, but we had not placed enough faith in this first warning to interrupt our journey. This second intelligence obliged us to pay more attention to the matter. We took council together, and afterward we called the 8 Natchez savages who were guiding us, to whom we promised a considerable present if they would tell us the truth, with promises of never declaring that it was they who had warned us. All the 8 savages declared to us openly that 6 leagues above on the shore at the left, where the canoes are obliged to pass close to the land, on account of a very rapid gulf which whirls in the middle of the river, 150 Natchez, armed with guns, at the head of whom was The Bearded, awaited us, and that we could not fail to perish, although there were six times the number of people. "La Harpe In Jour. Hist., 123, simply states that M. de la Loire had barely escaped by the advice of a chief who had given Mm the means to save his lite. This avowal of 8 persons, all of whom assured us of the same thing, obliged us to give up. M. de la Loire, the elder, was above all much embarrassed how he should withdraw his brother, who had remained in the village of the Natchez as guard of the storehouse of goods of the company. He spoke to me about it, appearing very sad. I told him that, if he would permit me, I would go alone to find him, and that I would bring him back with me or perish there. After having laid our plans above, we parted three hours...
Author : Emma Helen Blair
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1911
Category : Indians of North America
ISBN : WISC:89071512784
Author : John R. Swanton
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1527960560
Excerpt from Indian Tribes of the Lower Mississippi Valley and Adjacent Coast of the Gulf of Mexico Bossu. Travels through that part of North America formerly called Louisiana. Translated from the French by John Reinhold Forster, 2 vols, London, 1771. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : John R. Swanton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2013-03-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0781240433
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Author : Lynda N. Shaffer,Thomas Reilly
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2016-09-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781315288475
The pre-Columbian culture of the Mississippi woodlands has received surprisingly little attention from historians. Studying this culture, which was in many respects highly advanced, opens an entirely new perspective on what we are used to thinking of as "American" history. This essay by a distinguished historian and teacher is aimed at world history classes and other classes that cover the Americas before the arrival of the Europeans.