The Rumble of a Distant Drum : The Quapaws and Old World Newcomers, 1673–1804 / Morris S. Arnold.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Arnold, Morris S.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Quapaw Indians--Social life and customs.

Quapaw Indians.

Quapaw Indians--History.

Quapaw Indians--First contact with Europeans.

Arkansas--History--Sources.

Arkansas.

France--Colonies--America.

France.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (255 p.)

Place of Publication:

Fayetteville : University of Arkansas Press, 2000.

Summary:

Winner of the 2001 Booker Worthen Literary Prize Winner of the 2002 S. G. Ragsdale Award for Arkansas History The Rumble of a Distant Drum opens in 1673 when Marquette and Jolliet sailed down the Mississippi River and found the Quapaw living in the area where the Arkansas River flowed into the Mississippi. In 1686 Henri de Tonti would found Arkansas Post in this same location. It was the first European settlement in this part of the country, established thirty years before New Orleans and eighty before St. Louis. Morris S. Arnold draws on his many years of archival research and writing on colonial Arkansas to produce this elegant account of the cultural intersections of the French and Spanish with the native American peoples. He demonstrates that the Quapaws and Frenchmen created a highly symbiotic society in which the two disparate peoples became connected in complex and subtle ways-through intermarriage, trade, religious practice, and political/military alliances.

Contents:

Contents; Maps and Illustrations; Preface; Introduction; Chapter I. Family Ties: Dalliances and Alliances; Chapter II. An Animal and Human Refuge; Chapter III. The French and Quapaw Alliance Illustrated; Chapter IV. French and Spanish Hearts as One?; Chapter V. Competing Fathers and Quapaw European Policy; Chapter VI. Whose Law, Whose Religion?; Chapter VII. Fin de Siècle/Fin del Siglo/End of an Era; Abbreviations; Appendix I. Quapaw Population, 1682-1805; Appendix II. Arkansas Post Interpreters; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-220) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781610753579

1610753577

OCLC:

966898720