Book ID: CBB316452115

Natchez Country: Indians, Colonists, and the Landscapes of Race in French Louisiana (2015)

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Milne, George Edward (Author)


University of Georgia Press


Publication Date: 2015
Physical Details: 312
Language: English

At the dawn of the 1700s the Natchez viewed the first Francophones in the Lower Mississippi Valley as potential inductees to their chiefdom. This mistaken perception lulled them into permitting these outsiders to settle among them. Within two decades conditions in Natchez Country had taken a turn for the worse. The trickle of wayfarers had given way to a torrent of colonists (and their enslaved Africans) who refused to recognize the Natchez’s hierarchy. These newcomers threatened to seize key authority-generating features of Natchez Country: mounds, a plaza, and a temple. This threat inspired these Indians to turn to a recent import―racial categories―to reestablish social order. They began to call themselves “red men” to reunite their polity and to distance themselves from the “blacks” and “whites” into which their neighbors divided themselves. After refashioning their identity, they launched an attack that destroyed the nearby colonial settlements. Their 1729 assault began a two-year war that resulted in the death or enslavement of most of the Natchez people.In Natchez Country, George Edward Milne provides the most comprehensive history of the Lower Mississippi Valley and the Natchez to date. From La Salle’s first encounter with what would become Louisiana to the ultimate dispersal of the Natchez by the close of the 1730s, Milne also analyzes the ways in which French attitudes about race and slavery influenced native North American Indians in the vicinity of French colonial settlements on the Mississippi River and how Native Americans in turn adopted and resisted colonial ideology.

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Authors & Contributors
Brixius, Dorit
Weaver, Karol Kimberlee
Giulia Iannuzzi
Cobb, Charles R.
Berthelette, Scott
David J. Silverman
Concepts
Colonialism
France, colonies
American Indians; Native Americans; First Nations of the Americas
Medicine
Botany
Slavery and slaves
Time Periods
18th century
19th century
17th century
16th century
Enlightenment
20th century, early
Places
France
North America
India
Guatemala
New England (U.S.)
Québec (Canada)
Institutions
Académie Royale des Sciences (France)
Jardin du roi (France)
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