Louisiana Native Americans

Author : Fred B. Kniffen,Hiram F. Gregory,George A. Stokes
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1987-07-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780807153307

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The Historic Indian Tribes of Louisiana by Fred B. Kniffen,Hiram F. Gregory,George A. Stokes Pdf

Although many specialized studies have been written about Louisiana's Indian tribes, no complete account has appeared regarding their long, varied history. The Historic Indian Tribes of Louisiana: From 1542 to the Present is a highly informative study that reconstructs the history and cultural evolution of these people. This study identifies tribal groups, charts their migrations within the state, and discusses their languages and customs. According to the authors, the first descriptions of Louisiana Indians are contained in accounts kept by members of Hernando de Soto's expedition In the 1540s. The next recorders of Indian life were the French in the 1700s. European influences irrevocably marked the Indians' lives. The natives lost tribal lands to the new settlers and replaced many of their weapons and tools with those of the Europeans. Diseases apparently introduced by the Spaniards decimated entire tribes and caused the disappearance of certain tribal languages that had never been recorded. However, much of Indian material culture has survived even to the present, including the dugout canoe, or pirogue, and the beautiful cane basketry of the Chitimacha tribe.According to the authors, current figures show that Louisiana has the third largest native American population in the eastern United States. Several of Louisiana's present-day Indian tribes, such as the Tunica-Biloxi, Choctaw, and Koasati, entered the state in the second half of the eighteenth century. They gradually established settlements throughout the state, at times displacing the native tribes. Today, many of Louisiana's Indians work in business and industry and as farmers and loggers.The Historic Indian Tribes of Louisiana is a valuable contribution to the literature on Louisiana History. It will be of interest to anthropologists, geographers, historians, and anyone wanting to know more about these important members of Louisiana's population.

Author : Carole Marsh
Publisher : Gallopade International
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2011-03-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780635085979

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Louisiana Native Americans by Carole Marsh Pdf

One of the most popular misconceptions about American Indians is that they are all the same-one homogenous group of people who look alike, speak the same language, and share the same customs and history. Nothing could be further from the truth! This book gives kids an A-Z look at the Native Americans that shaped their state's history. From tribe to tribe, there are large differences in clothing, housing, life-styles, and cultural practices. Help kids explore Native American history by starting with the Native Americans that might have been in their very own backyard! Some of the activities include crossword puzzles, fill in the blanks, and decipher the code.

Author : Louisiana Native American Association
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1839
Category : Emigration and immigration
ISBN : HARVARD:32044055067185

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Address of the Louisiana Native American Association by Louisiana Native American Association Pdf

Author : Tim Mueller,Sarah Sue Goldsmith
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2003-09-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780807128862

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Nations Within by Tim Mueller,Sarah Sue Goldsmith Pdf

The land of Louisiana has nourished Native American people since 4000 b.c. Not often thought of as “Indian country,” this southern state has some of the oldest and best-preserved Indian burial sites in the world, as well as distinct native cultures that continue to flourish in the twenty-first century. Nations Within combines amazing photographs with the voices and perspectives of Native Americans to unveil the past and glimpse the future of the four federally recognized sovereign Indian tribes of Louisiana—the Chitimacha, Coushatta, Tunica-Biloxi, and Jena Band of Choctaw—showing how these particular groups have sustained their heritage and managed to thrive despite poverty, discrimination, and near extinction. The oldest, the Chitimacha, have resided along the Atchafalaya Basin for more than six thousand years and achieved federal recognition in 1919. This community has kept its identity through French and Spanish colonial governments, as Acadians flowed into the region, and even as mainstream white American culture seeped into its indigenous way of life and displaced its native tongue. The Tunica-Biloxi tribe, which began efforts to gain recognition in the 1930s and finally achieved that goal in 1981, can trace its roots back to the sixteenth century. Located near Marksville, this nation once considered renting its land for fifty dollars a month as a garbage dump but now owns a multimillion-dollar business that benefits the tribal members and has recovered a fascinating collection of artifacts attesting to its long history. The Coushatta began their journey from Georgia to Louisiana in the late eighteenth century, eventually settling along the southeastern reaches of the Red River. Attaining sovereign status in 1972, the tribe has maintained its basic social tie, the family unit or clan, and continues to practice traditions handed down for centuries, such as the ritual shaving of infants’ hair, flute music, basket weaving, and Indian fry bread. The youngest of the nations is the Jena Band of Choctaw, which chose the Trout Creek area in central Louisiana as its home instead of continuing the trek with other Choctaw forced west along the Trail of Tears. Securing federal recognition only in 1995, the Jena Band focuses its efforts on paving its economic future, raising the educational level of the tribe, and improving health care options for members. This wonderfully conceived book follows some of Louisiana’s many Indians through everyday life as they preserve their culture and prepare for the future within an increasingly complex world. Photographs and text together tell the uniqueness of each tribe and the shining strength of its people.

Author : Louisiana Native American Association
Publisher : Wentworth Press
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2016-08-28
Category : History
ISBN : 1372889302

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ADDRESS OF THE LOUISIANA NATIV by Louisiana Native American Association Pdf

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 was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. 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. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. 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 : Donald Ricky
Publisher : Somerset Publishers, Inc.
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780403098644

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Indians of Louisiana by Donald Ricky Pdf

Surveys the various groups of Indians, past and present, who occupied Louisiana, describing their history, customs, etc.

Author : Louisiana Native American Association
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0259276545

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Address of the Louisiana Native American Association, to the Citizens of Louisiana and the Inhabitants of the United States (Classic Reprint) by Louisiana Native American Association Pdf

Excerpt from Address of the Louisiana Native American Association, to the Citizens of Louisiana and the Inhabitants of the United States When we point our countrymen, to the fact, that almost the whole machinery of our Criminal Courts, is sustained by foreign malefactors, at a great expense of time, toil and treasure to the people of the United States and with a fearful deterioration of native American manners and morals. 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 : Fred Bowerman Kniffen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 12 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1935
Category : Indians of North America
ISBN : OCLC:10904327

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The Historic Indian Tribes of Louisiana by Fred Bowerman Kniffen Pdf

Author : Robert J. Miller
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2006-09-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780313071843

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Native America, Discovered and Conquered by Robert J. Miller Pdf

Manifest Destiny, as a term for westward expansion, was not used until the 1840s. Its predecessor was the Doctrine of Discovery, a legal tradition by which Europeans and Americans laid legal claim to the land of the indigenous people that they discovered. In the United States, the British colonists who had recently become Americans were competing with the English, French, and Spanish for control of lands west of the Mississippi. Who would be the discoverers of the Indians and their lands, the United States or the European countries? We know the answer, of course, but in this book, Miller explains for the first time exactly how the United States achieved victory, not only on the ground, but also in the developing legal thought of the day. The American effort began with Thomas Jefferson's authorization of the Lewis & Clark Expedition, which set out in 1803 to lay claim to the West. Lewis and Clark had several charges, among them the discovery of a Northwest Passage—a land route across the continent—in order to establish an American fur trade with China. In addition, the Corps of Northwestern Discovery, as the expedition was called, cataloged new plant and animal life, and performed detailed ethnographic research on the Indians they encountered. This fascinating book lays out how that ethnographic research became the legal basis for Indian removal practices implemented decades later, explaining how the Doctrine of Discovery became part of American law, as it still is today.

Author : William A. Read
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 149 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2008-10-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780817355050

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Louisiana Place Names of Indian Origin by William A. Read Pdf

His writings spanned five decades and have been instrumental across a wide range of academic disciplines. Most importantly, Read devoted a good portion of his research to the meaning of place names in the southeastern United States—especially as they related to Indian word adoption by Europeans. This volume includes his three Louisiana articles combined: Louisiana: Louisiana Place-Names of Indian Origin (1927), More Indian Place-Names in Louisiana (1928), and Indian Words (1931). Joining Alabama's reprint of Indian Places Names in Alabama and Florida Place Names of Indian Origin and Seminole Personal Names, this volume completes the republication of the southern place name writings of William A. Read.

Author : Fred Bowerman Kniffen,Hiram F. Gregory,George A. Stokes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Indians of North America
ISBN : 080711295X

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The Historic Indian Tribes of Louisiana by Fred Bowerman Kniffen,Hiram F. Gregory,George A. Stokes Pdf

The history of Louisiana Indians including Atakapa, Opelousa, Pacana, Caddo, Tunica, Koroa, Yazoo, Taensa, Avoyel, Muskogeans, Houma, Bayougoula, Acolapissa, Tangipahoa, Quinapisa, Mugulasha, Okelousa, Chitimacha, Washa, Chawasha, Choctaw, Taensa, Natchez, Chickasaw, Talapoosa, Biloxi, Pascagoula, Apalachee, Koasati, Alabama, Apache, Yatasi, and Chawasha tribes.

Author : Carole Marsh
Publisher : Carole Marsh Books
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780793376988

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Louisiana Indian Dictionary for Kids! by Carole Marsh Pdf

Author : Carole Marsh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2004-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0635022818

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Louisiana Native Americans: A Kid's Look at Our State's Chiefs, Tribes, Reservations, Powwows, Lore, and More from the Past and the Present by Carole Marsh Pdf

One of the most popular misconceptions about American Indians is that they are all the same-one homogenous group of people who look alike, speak the same language, and share the same customs and history. Nothing could be further from the truth! This book gives kids an A-Z look at the Native Americans that shaped their state's history. From tribe to tribe, there are large differences in clothing, housing, life-styles, and cultural practices. Help kids explore Native American history by starting with the Native Americans that might have been in their very own backyard! Some of the activities include crossword puzzles, fill in the blanks, and decipher the code.

Author : Rain Prud'homme-Cranford,Darryl Barthé,Andrew J. Jolivétte
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2022-03-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780295749501

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Louisiana Creole Peoplehood by Rain Prud'homme-Cranford,Darryl Barthé,Andrew J. Jolivétte Pdf

Over the course of more than three centuries, the diverse communities of Louisiana have engaged in creative living practices to forge a vibrant, multifaceted, and fully developed Creole culture. Against the backdrop of ongoing anti-Blackness and Indigenous erasure that has sought to undermine this rich culture, Louisiana Creoles have found transformative ways to uphold solidarity, kinship, and continuity, retaking Louisiana Creole agency as a post-contact Afro-Indigenous culture. Engaging themes as varied as foodways, queer identity, health, historical trauma, language revitalization, and diaspora, Louisiana Creole Peoplehood explores vital ways a specific Afro-Indigenous community asserts agency while promoting cultural sustainability, communal dialogue, and community reciprocity. With interviews, essays, and autobiographic contributions from community members and scholars, Louisiana Creole Peoplehood tracks the sacred interweaving of land and identity alongside the legacies and genealogies of Creole resistance to bring into focus the Afro-Indigenous people written out of settler governmental policy. In doing so, this collection intervenes against the erasure of Creole Indigeneity to foreground Black/Indian cultural sustainability, agency, and self-determination.

Author : Patrick G. Williams,S. Charles Bolton,Jeannie M. Whayne
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781557287847

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A Whole Country in Commotion by Patrick G. Williams,S. Charles Bolton,Jeannie M. Whayne Pdf

Bringing together the work of prominent scholars and rising stars in southern, western, and Indian history, A Whole Country in Commotion explores lesser-known aspects of one of the better-known episodes in U.S. history. While the purchase has been seen as a great boon for the United States, doubling the size of the new nation and securing American navigation on the Mississippi River, it also brought turmoil to many. Looking past the triumphal aspects of the purchase, this book examines the “negotiations among peoples, nations and empires that preceded and followed the actual transfer of territory.” Its nine essays highlight the “commotion” the purchase stirred up—among nations, among Louisiana residents and newcomers, even among those who remained east of the Mississippi. Many of these essays look at the portion of the Louisiana territory that would become Arkansas to illustrate the profound impact of the purchase on the diverse populations of the American Southwest. Others explore the woeful commotion brought to many thousands of lives as Jefferson's “noble bargain” set the stage for the forced migration of native and African Americans from the east to the west of the Mississippi.