03243nam 2200661 a 450 991096966170332120200520144314.00-8173-8215-1(CKB)1000000000537505(EBL)438210(OCoLC)320324529(SSID)ssj0000168977(PQKBManifestationID)11153602(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000168977(PQKBWorkID)10202988(PQKB)10098344(MdBmJHUP)muse8886(Au-PeEL)EBL438210(CaPaEBR)ebr10237160(MiAaPQ)EBC438210(EXLCZ)99100000000053750520020124d2002 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrLa Harpe's post a tale of French-Wichita contact on the eastern plains /George H. Odell ; with appendixes by Marie E. Brown ... [et al.]1st ed.Tuscaloosa University of Alabama Pressc20021 online resource (393 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8173-1162-9 Includes bibliographical references (p. [339]-359) and index.Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Tables; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1. The Land That K new No European; 2. Who Were These Indians?; 3. The New World as Political Pawn; 4. Industry Presents an Opportunity; 5. A Testimony to Storage and Cooking; 6. Teasing Meaning from Bits and Pieces; 7. What Were Those People Doing There?; 8. Hypothesizing the Eighteenth Century; APPENDIXES; Notes; References Cited; ContributorsThis major contribution to contact period studies points to the Lasley Vore site in modern Oklahoma as the most likely first meeting place of Plains Indians and Europeans more than 300 years ago. In 1718, Jean-Baptiste Benard, Sieur de la Harpe, departed St. Malo in Brittany for the New World. La Harpe, a member of the French bourgeoisie, arrived at Dauphin Island on the Gulf coast to take up the entrepreneurial concession provided by the director of the French colony, Jean Baptiste Lemoyne de Bienville. La Harpe's charge was to open a trading post on the Red River just above a Caddoan villageTawakoni IndiansFirst contact with other peoplesWichita IndiansFirst contact with other peoplesAcculturationOklahomaHistory18th centuryFrontier and pioneer lifeOklahomaIndians of North AmericaOklahomaAntiquitiesOklahomaDiscovery and explorationFrenchOklahomaEthnic relationsOklahomaAntiquitiesTawakoni IndiansFirst contact with other peoples.Wichita IndiansFirst contact with other peoples.AcculturationHistoryFrontier and pioneer lifeIndians of North AmericaAntiquities.976.6004/979Odell George H1820371MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910969661703321La Harpe's post4382263UNINA