The Native Ground
Subtitle: Indians and Colonists in the Heart of the Continent (Early American Studies)
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: July 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780812219395
Subjects: American history; Indigenous peoples; History; History - U.S.; History: American; North America; USA; Native American; United States - Colonial Period; History / United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775)
First sentence: In the summer of 1673, a Quapaw Indian spotted two canoes full of Frenchmen descending the broad, brown waterway that Algonquian speakers named the Mississippi, the "Big River."