French and Indians in the heart of North America, 1630-1815

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ISBN: 9780887557606
ISBN: 0887557600
Physical Description: print
xxxiii, 219 p. : maps ; 23 cm.
Publisher: Winnipeg : University of Manitoba Press ; East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, c2013.

General Note:	Consists mainly of papers concerning the history of French-Indian relations in the colonial Great Lakes region and Mississippi River Valley presented at the annual meeting of the French Colonial Historical Society in 2008.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references.
Formatted Contents Note:	Introduction: French and Indians in the heart of North America / Robert Englebert and Guillaume Teasdale -- "Faire la chaudiere": the Wendat Feast of Souls, 1636 / Kathryn Magee Labelle -- Natives, newcomers and nicotiana: tobacco in the history of the Great Lakes / Christopher M. Parsons -- The terms of encounter: language and contested visions of French colonization -- In the Illinois Country, 1673-1702 / Robert Michael Morrissey -- "Gascon exaggerations": the rise of Antoine Laumet (dit de Lamothe, Sieur de Cadillac), the foundation of colonial Detroit, and the origins of the Fox Wars / Richard Weyhing -- "Protection" and "unequal alliance": the French conception of sovereignty over the Indians in New France / Gilles Havard -- The French and the Natchez: a failed encounter / Arnaud Balvay -- From subjects to citizens: two Pierres and the French influence on the transformation of the Illinois Country / John Reda -- Blue beads, vermilion, and scalpers: the social economy of the 1810-1812 Astorian Overland Expedition?s French-Canadian voyageurs / Nicole St-Onge.