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Calumet & fleur-de-lys : archaeology of Indian and French contact in the midcontinent / edited by John A. Walthall and Thomas E. Emerson.

Title: Calumet & fleur-de-lys : archaeology of Indian and French contact in the midcontinent / edited by John A. Walthall and Thomas E. Emerson.
Publication: Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press, c1992.

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viii, 307 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

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 It integrates, for the first time, historical documents of the French politicians, explorers, priests, and traders with the archaeological record of numerous midcontinental native and French colonial sites.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.

Alternative Title

Calumet and fleur-de-lys.

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Genre/Form

Conference papers and proceedings

Note

Papers from Conference on French Colonial Archaeology in the Illinois Country, held in Springfield, Ill., Apr. 1988.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

committed to retain

Contents

Certain aspects of French-Indian interaction in lower Louisiane / Ian W. Brown -- French colonial trade in the upper Creek country / Gregory A. Waselkov -- The seventeenth-century Michigamea Village location in Arkansas / Dan F. Morse -- The late prehistory and protohistory of Illinois / Thomas E. Emerson and James A. Brown -- Woman Chief's Village: an Illini winter hunting camp / John A. Walthall, F. Terry Norris, and Barbara D. Stafford -- Aboriginal pottery and the eighteenth-century Illini / John A. Walthall -- Tionontate Huron occupation at the Marquette Mission / Susan M. Branstner -- The Mdewakanto Dakota and initial French contact / Douglas A. Birk and Elden Johnson -- Native Americans and French on the central Wabash / History and Archaeology: the 1730 Mesquakie Fort / Lenville J. Stelle.

ISBN

156098158X (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^91037953^

OCLC

24628428
SCSB-10767117

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Harvard Library