La Harpe's post [[electronic resource] ] : a tale of French-Wichita contact on the eastern plains / / George H. Odell ; with appendixes by Marie E. Brown ... [et al.]
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Odell George H
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La Harpe's post [[electronic resource] ] : a tale of French-Wichita contact on the eastern plains / / George H. Odell ; with appendixes by Marie E. Brown ... [et al.]
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| Pubblicazione: | Tuscaloosa, : University of Alabama Press, c2002 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (393 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 976.6004/979 |
| Soggetto topico: | Tawakoni Indians - First contact with Europeans |
| Wichita Indians - First contact with Europeans | |
| Acculturation - Oklahoma - History - 18th century | |
| Frontier and pioneer life - Oklahoma | |
| Indians of North America - Oklahoma - Antiquities | |
| Soggetto geografico: | Oklahoma Discovery and exploration French |
| Oklahoma Ethnic relations | |
| Oklahoma Antiquities | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [339]-359) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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; Contributors |
| Sommario/riassunto: | This 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 village |
| Titolo autorizzato: | La Harpe's post |
| ISBN: | 0-8173-8215-1 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910453936203321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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