04337nam 2200697Ia 450 991081076140332120230803032550.01-60917-360-0(CKB)3170000000060824(EBL)1810037(SSID)ssj0000835390(PQKBManifestationID)11458149(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000835390(PQKBWorkID)10990059(PQKB)10785663(MiAaPQ)EBC3338303(OCoLC)835374609(MdBmJHUP)muse20057(Au-PeEL)EBL3338303(CaPaEBR)ebr10667453(OCoLC)923248774(EXLCZ)99317000000006082420120720d2013 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrFrench and Indians in the heart of North America, 1630-1815 /edited by Robert Englebert and Guillaume TeasdaleEast Lansing Michigan State University Press20131 online resource (254 p.)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 2008.1-61186-074-1 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.In the past thirty years, the study of French-Indian relations in the center of North America has emerged as an important field for examining the complex relationships that defined a vast geographical area, including the Great Lakes region, the Illinois Country, the Missouri River Valley, and Upper and Lower Louisiana. For years, no one better represented this emerging area of study than Jacqueline Peterson and Richard White, scholars who identified a world defined by miscegenation between French colonists and the native population, or métissage, and the unique process of cultural accommodatiFrenchGreat Lakes Region (North America)HistoryCongressesFrenchMississippi River ValleyHistoryCongressesIndians of North AmericaGreat Lakes Region (North America)HistoryCongressesIndians of North AmericaMississippi River ValleyHistoryCongressesCanadaHistoryTo 1763 (New France)CongressesGreat Lakes Region (North America)HistoryCongressesMiddle WestEthnic relationsCongressesMiddle WestHistoryCongressesMississippi River ValleyHistoryTo 1803CongressesNorth AmericaHistoryCongressesFrenchHistoryFrenchHistoryIndians of North AmericaHistoryIndians of North AmericaHistory977/.01Englebert Robert1623577Teasdale Guillaume1623578French Colonial Historical Society.MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910810761403321French and Indians in the heart of North America, 1630-18153958033UNINA