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The great power of small nations : indigenous diplomacy in the Gulf South / Elizabeth N. Ellis.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ellis, Elizabeth N. (Elizabeth Nicole), 1988- author.
- Series:
- Early American studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Indians of North America--Mississippi River Valley--Politics and government.
- Indians of North America.
- Indians of North America--Gulf Coast (U.S.)--Politics and government.
- Indians of North America--Mississippi River Valley--History--18th century.
- Indians of North America--Gulf Coast (U.S.)--History--18th century.
- Mississippi River Valley--History--18th century.
- Mississippi River Valley.
- Gulf Coast (U.S.)--History--18th century.
- Gulf Coast (U.S.).
- Indians of North America--Politics and government.
- United States--Gulf Coast.
- Genre:
- History
- Physical Description:
- 330 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
- Other Title:
- Indigenous diplomacy in the Gulf South
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2022]
- Summary:
- "This book provides a fresh examination of the formidable and resilient Native nations who helped shape the early Gulf South. This history focuses on the Lower Mississippi Valley during the eighteenth century. It examines how diverse Indigenous peoples influenced and limited the growth of European empires and have managed to survive hundreds of years of colonization"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- A world of towns
- Establishing relationships with the French
- Enslaved by their allies : Tensas and Chitimachas in French Louisiana
- Colonial propaganda and indigenous defiance
- French transgressions and Natchez resistance
- Imperial blunders and the revival of interdependency at midcentury
- Tunica power after the Seven Years' War
- The beginnings of marginalization
- Remembering, forgetting, and mythologizing the Petites Nations.
- Notes:
- Indigenous contributors: Elizabeth N. Ellis (Peewaalia, Peoria Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma).
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-317) and index (pages 319-325).
- ISBN:
- 9781512823097
- 1512823090
- OCLC:
- 1300755866
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