Calumet & fleur-de-lys : archaeology of Indian and French contact in the midcontinent / edited by John A. Walthall and Thomas E. Emerson.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Walthall, John A.

Emerson, Thomas E., 1945-

Conference Name:

Conference on French Colonial Archaeology in the Illinois Country (1988 : Springfield, Ill.)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indians of North America--Illinois--Antiquities--Congresses.

Indians of North America.

Illinois.

Antiquities.

French--Illinois--Antiquities--Congresses.

French.

Indians of North America--Mississippi River Valley--Antiquities--Congresses.

Mississippi River Valley.

French--Mississippi River Valley--Antiquities--Congresses.

Indians of North America--Great Lakes Region (North America)--Antiquities--Congresses.

French--Great Lakes Region (North America)--Antiquities--Congresses.

Illinois--Antiquities--Congresses.

Mississippi River Valley--Antiquities--Congresses.

Great Lakes Region (North America)--Antiquities--Congresses.

Great Lakes Region (North America).

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

viii, 307 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Other Title:

Calumet and fleur-de-lys.

Place of Publication:

Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press, [1992]

Summary:

Despite increased research interest in the interaction of native North American peoples and Europeans, little attention has been directed toward Indian-French interactions--even though for more than a century the French controlled an area of the interior more than twice the size of the combined North American territories of Britain and Spain. Calumet and Fleur-de-Lys focuses on historic Native American sites and archaeological evidence of native interaction with the French from the landing of Jean Nicollet in Green Bay in 1634 to the surrender of French America to the British in 1765. It integrates, for the first time, historical documents of the French politicians, explorers, priests, and traders with the archaeological record of numerous midcontinental native and French colonial sites. The essays cover the full range of French America--from the mouth of the Mississippi to the Great Lakes region--and examine topics as diverse as the protohistoric native cultures of the Midwest, French traders among the Sioux of northern Minnesota, Indian-French military relations in Louisiana and on the Wabash, the Indian deerskin trade of the Southeast, Huron refugees in Michigan, and Illini hunting camps and villages in Illinois. Most previous research into French America, including Francis Parkman's classic histories, has centered on "great men"--LaSalle, Marquette, Joliet, and Nicollet. Calumet and Fleur-de-Lys demonstrates the potential of the archaeological record to expand the history of native cultures and Indian-French relations in the contact era.

Contents:

Indians and French in the Midcontinent / John A. Walthall, Thomas E. Emerson 1

Part 1 Lower Louisiane

1. Certain Aspects of French-Indian Interaction in Lower Louisiane / Ian W. Brown 17

2. French Colonial Trade in the Upper Creek Country / Gregory A. Waselkov 35

3. The Seventeenth-Century Michigamea Village Location in Arkansas / Dan F. Morse 55

Part 2 The Illinois Country

4. The Late Prehistory and Protohistory of Illinois / Thomas E. Emerson, James A. Brown 77

5. Woman Chief's Village: An Illini Winter Hunting Camp / John A. Walthall, F. Terry Norris, Barbara D. Stafford 129

6. Aboriginal Pottery and the Eighteenth-Century Illini / John A. Walthall 155

Part 3 The Western Great Lakes

7. Tionontate Huron Occupation at the Marquette Mission / Susan M. Branstner 177

8. The Mdewakanton Dakota and Initial French Contact / Douglas A. Birk, Elden Johnson 203

9. Native Americans and French on the Central Wabash / Neal L. Trubowitz 241

10. History and Archaeology: The 1730 Mesquakie Fort / Lenville J. Stelle 265.

Notes:

Papers from Conference on French Colonial Archaeology in the Illinois Country, held in Springfield, Ill., Apr. 1988.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

156098158X

OCLC:

24628428