French and Indians in the heart of North America, 1630-1815
By: edited by Robert Englebert and Guillaume Teasdale
Contributors: French Colonial Historical Society
Publisher: Michigan State University Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: East Lansing
Language: eng
Number of pages: 219
ISBN-13: 9781609173609; 9781611860740
Subjects: Ethnic relations; Congresses; French; Indians of North America; History
Notes: 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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: French and Indians in the heart of North America / Robert Englebert and Guillaume Teasdale; title: "Faire la chaudiere": the Wendat Feast of Souls, 1636 / Kathryn Magee Labelle; title: Natives, newcomers and nicotiana: tobacco in the history of the Great Lakes / Christopher M. Parsons; title: The terms of encounter: language and contested visions of French colonization; title: In the Illinois Country, 1673-1702 / Robert Michael Morrissey; title: "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; title: "Protection" and "unequal alliance": the French conception of sovereignty over the Indians in New France / Gilles Havard; title: The French and the Natchez: a failed encounter / Arnaud Balvay; title: From subjects to citizens: two Pierres and the French influence on the transformation of the Illinois Country / John Reda; title: Blue beads, vermilion, and scalpers: the social economy of the 1810-1812 Astorian Overland Expedition's French-Canadian voyageurs / Nicole St-Onge.