French and Indians in the heart of North America, 1630-1815 / edited by Robert Englebert and Guillaume Teasdale.

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Corporate Author: French Colonial Historical Society
Other Authors: Englebert, Robert, Teasdale, Guillaume
Language:English
Published: East Lansing : Winnipeg : Michigan State University Press ; University of Manitoba Press, [2013], ©2013.
Subjects:
French > Mississippi River Valley > History > Congresses.
Indigenous peoples of North America > Mississippi River Valley > History > Congresses.
French > Great Lakes Region (North America) > History > Congresses.
Indigenous peoples of North America > Great Lakes Region (North America) > History > Congresses.
Middle West > History > Congresses.
Middle West > Ethnic relations > Congresses.
Mississippi River Valley > History > To 1803 > Congresses.
Great Lakes Region (North America) > History > Congresses.
Canada > History > To 1763 (New France) > Congresses.
North America > History > Congresses.
Genre:
Congresses.
Physical Description:xxxiii, 219 pages : maps ; 23 cm
Format: Book
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.