French and Indians in the heart of North America, 1630-1815

Author

Robert Englebert

Call Number

• H 977.01 F8732 (CEN)

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Publication Information

East Lansing : Michigan State University Press ; Winnipeg : University of Manitoba Press, ©2013.

Physical Description

xxxiii, 219 pages : maps ; 23 cm

Summary

Consists mainly of papers concerning the history of French-Indian relations in the colonial Great Lakes region and Mississippi River Valley presented at the annual meeting of the French Colonial Historical Society in 2008.

Notes

Consists mainly of papers concerning the history of French-Indian relations in the colonial Great Lakes region and Mississippi River Valley presented at the annual meeting of the French Colonial Historical Society in 2008.

Contents

• Introduction: French and Indians in the heart of North America / Robert Englebert and Guillaume Teasdale
• "Faire la chaudiere": the Wendat Feast of Souls, 1636 / Kathryn Magee Labelle
• Natives, newcomers and nicotiana: tobacco in the history of the Great Lakes / Christopher M. Parsons
• The terms of encounter: language and contested visions of French colonization
• In the Illinois Country, 1673-1702 / Robert Michael Morrissey
• "Gascon exaggerations": the rise of Antoine Laumet (dit de Lamothe, Sieur de Cadillac), the foundation of colonial Detroit, and the origins of the Fox Wars / Richard Weyhing
• "Protection" and "unequal alliance": the French conception of sovereignty over the Indians in New France / Gilles Havard
• The French and the Natchez: a failed encounter / Arnaud Balvay
• From subjects to citizens: two Pierres and the French influence on the transformation of the Illinois Country / John Reda
• Blue beads, vermilion, and scalpers: the social economy of the 1810-1812 Astorian Overland Expedition's French-Canadian voyageurs / Nicole St-Onge.