The Natchez Indians : a history to 1735 / James F. Barnett, Jr.
2007
E99.N2 B37 2007 (Mapit)
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Title
The Natchez Indians : a history to 1735 / James F. Barnett, Jr.
Author
ISBN
9781578069880 (alk. paper)
1578069882 (alk. paper)
1578069882 (alk. paper)
Published
Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2007]
Copyright
©2007
Language
English
Description
xviii, 185 pages : maps ; 24 cm
Call Number
E99.N2 B37 2007
Dewey Decimal Classification
976.2/4004979
Summary
From the Publisher: The Natchez Indians: A History to 1735 is the story of the Natchez Indians as revealed through accounts of Spanish, English, and French explorers, missionaries, soldiers, and colonists, and in the archaeological record. Because of their strategic location on the Mississippi River, the Natchez Indians played a crucial part in the European struggle for control of the Lower Mississippi Valley. The book begins with the brief confrontation between the Hernando de Soto expedition and the powerful Quigualtam chiefdom, presumed ancestors of the Natchez. In the late seventeenth century Rene-Robert Cavelier de La Salle's expedition met the Natchez and initiated sustained European encroachment, exposing the tribe to sickness and the dangers of the Indian slave trade. The Natchez Indians portrays the way that the Natchez coped with a rapidly changing world, became entangled with the political ambitions of two European superpowers, France and England, and eventually disappeared as a people. The author examines the shifting relationships among the tribe's settlement districts and the settlement districts' relationships with neighboring tribes and with the Europeans. The establishment of a French fort and burgeoning agricultural colony in their midst signaled the beginning of the end for the Natchez people. Barnett has written the most complete and detailed history of the Natchez to date.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 164-173) and index.
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Table of Contents
Warrior boatmen
European reconnaissance, 1682 1715
European occupation, 1715 1729
The rebellion.
European reconnaissance, 1682 1715
European occupation, 1715 1729
The rebellion.