Paths to a middle ground : the diplomacy of Natchez, Boukfouka, Nogales, and San Fernando de las Barrancas, 1791-1795 / Charles A. Weeks.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Weeks, Charles A., 1937-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indians of North America--Government relations--1789-1869.

Indians of North America.

Spaniards--Mississippi--Natchez--History--18th century.

Spaniards.

Spaniards--Louisiana--New Orleans--History--18th century.

Colonial administrators--Mississippi--Natchez--History--18th century.

Colonial administrators.

Colonial administrators--Louisiana--New Orleans--History--18th century.

Political culture--Mississippi--Natchez Region--History--18th century--Sources.

Political culture.

Political culture--Alabama--Mobile Region--History--18th century--Sources.

Natchez Region (Miss.)--Ethnic relations.

Natchez Region (Miss.).

Mobile Region (Ala.)--Ethnic relations.

Mobile Region (Ala.).

Tombigbee River Region (Miss. and Ala.)--Ethnic relations.

Tombigbee River Region (Miss. and Ala.).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (305 p.)

Place of Publication:

Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Spanish imperial attempts to form strong Indian alliances to thwart American expansion in the Mississippi Valley. Charles Weeks explores the diplomacy of Spanish colonial officials in New Orleans and Natchez in order to establish posts on the Mississippi River and Tombigbee rivers in the early 1790's. Another purpose of this diplomacy, urged by Indian leaders and embraced by Spanish officials, was the formation of a regional Indian confederation that would deter American expansion into Indian lands. Weeks shows how diplomatic relations were establish

Contents:

Contents; Part II; Maps and Diagrams; Preface; Introduction: An Argument; Part I; 1. Initial and Sustained Contacts in the Gulf South: From Violence to Diplomacy; 2. Forging Diplomatic Paths: Native Participants; 3. Forging Diplomatic Paths: Emergence of a Culture of Diplomacy; 4. The Nogales Dispute, 1791-1792: Some Immediate Antecedents; 5. Diplomacy of the Nogales Dispute, 1791-1792; 6. Paths to Boukfouka and the Tombigbee, 1792-1793; 7. Tangled and Twisted Paths to Nogales; 8. The Nogales Assembly, 1793; 9. Paths-River and Other-from Nogales to San Fernando de las Barrancas

Part III: Documents 1. Diary of Gayoso's Journey to Nogales, March 24-April 23, 1791; 2. Franchimastabé and Taboca to Gayoso, May 14, 1791; 3. Gayoso's Reply to Franchimastabé and Taboca, May 28, 1791; 4. Diary of Minor's First Mission to the Choctaws May 30 to June 13, 1791; 5. Gayoso on Minor's Mission to the Choctaws, July 1, 1791; 6. Gayoso to Franchimastabé, March 12, 1792; 7. Diary of Stephen Minor's Second Mission to the Choctaws, March 13-April 3, 1792; 8. Franchimastabé to Gayoso, March 28, 1792; 9. Gayoso to Tascahetuca [Taskietoka], March 28, 1792

10. Gayoso's Account of the Natchez Congress, May 179211. Treaty of Natchez, May 14, 1792; 12. Gayoso's Account of the Visit of Cherokee Chiefs to Natchez, December 1792-January 1793; 13. Treaty of Boukfouka, May 1793; 14. Gayoso's Account of the Nogales Assembly, October 1793; 15. Treaty of Nogales, October 28, 1793; 16. Cession of the Barrancas de Margó or Chickasaw Bluffs to the Spanish Nation, June 1795; 17. Gayoso's Account of a Meeting with the Chickasaw King at San Fernando de las Barrancas, August 1795; Abbreviations; Notes to Chapters; Notes to Documents; Essay on Sources; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-278) and index.

ISBN:

0-8173-8522-3

OCLC:

648711536