La Salle and His Legacy: Frenchmen and Indians in the Lower Mississippi ValleyPatricia Galloway Univ. Press of Mississippi, 1983 - Broj stranica: 274 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 r |
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The Image of La Salle in North American | 3 |
Sources for the La Salle Expedition of 1682 II | 11 |
The Chickasaw Contact with the La Salle Expedition | 41 |
An Archaeological and | 49 |
The Impact of the La Salle Expedition of 1682 on | 60 |
The Beginnings of French Colonialism | 79 |
France in North America | 93 |
Andrés de Pez and Spanish Reaction to French | 106 |
The English Reaction to La Salle | 129 |
The Indian Lingua Franca of Colonial | 139 |
An Archaeological Study of Culture Contact and Change | 176 |
French Fortification at Fort Rosalie Natchez | 194 |
Forgotten Gateway to New Orleans | 211 |
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Contributors | 249 |
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aboriginal Alabama Andrés de Pez Archaeology Archives Barbier Bienville Broutin century Chacta Chicacha Chickasaw chief Choctaw Creek culture Delisle direct historical approach discovery documents Dunn early English Bend European exploration Florida Folmer Fort Rosalie forts France France's French colonial Frenchmen Frontenac Grand Village Grigra groups Gulf Coast Gulf of Mexico Habig Henri de Tonti History Iberville Iberville's ibid Illinois James Jean Delanglez Jeffrey John journey Koroa La Salle land leagues Louis XIV Louisiana Lower Mississippi Valley Margry Maurepas Membré Missis Mississippi River Mobile Mobilian mouth narrative Natchez Bluffs Region Natchez Indians Natchez villages Nicolas North America Orleans party Pensacola Bay procès verbal Prudhomme Quinipissa recorded René-Robert Cavelier reported Rosalie route Salle expedition Salle's sent ships Sieur Sigüenza sippi slave Soto sources Southeastern Spain Spanish Swanton Taensa Texas tion Tioux Tonti letters Tonti memoir trade language Vaudreuil Veracruz William wrote Yazoo