Cultural Encounters in the Early South

by Whayne, Jeannie M.

• ISBN13: 9781557283948
• ISBN10: 155728394X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1995-10-01
• Publisher: Univ of Arkansas Pr

Summary

Using historical, anthropological, and archaeological approaches, these essays collectively cover the European-Indian experience in the region from first contact in 1541 through the Louisiana purchase of 1803.

Author Biography

Jeannie M. Whayne is assistant professor of history at the University of Arkansas and serves as editor of the Arkansas Historical Quarterly.

Table of Contents

Contributors
Preface
Introduction
The Expedition of Hernando de Soto: A Post-mortem Report	p. 3
Living in a Graveyard: Native Americans in Colonial Arkansas	p. 38
Protohistoric Tunican Indians in Arkansas	p. 61
Rituals of Encounter: Interpreting Native American Views of European Explorers	p. 76
Almost "Illinark": The French Presence in Northeast Arkansas	p. 88
Between a Rock and a Hard Place: The Indian Trade in Spanish Arkansas	p. 112
The Significance of Arkansas's Colonial Experience	p. 131
Indians Signs on the Land	p. 142
Endnotes	p. 159
Index	p. 197
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