The Native Ground - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Native Ground write by Kathleen DuVal. This book was released on 2011-06-03. The Native Ground available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In The Native Ground, Kathleen DuVal argues that it was Indians rather than European would-be colonizers who were more often able to determine the form and content of the relations between the two groups. Along the banks of the Arkansas and Mississippi rivers, far from Paris, Madrid, and London, European colonialism met neither accommodation nor resistance but incorporation. Rather than being colonized, Indians drew European empires into local patterns of land and resource allocation, sustenance, goods exchange, gender relations, diplomacy, and warfare. Placing Indians at the center of the story, DuVal shows both their diversity and our contemporary tendency to exaggerate the influence of Europeans in places far from their centers of power. Europeans were often more dependent on Indians than Indians were on them. Now the states of Arkansas, Oklahoma, Kansas, and Colorado, this native ground was originally populated by indigenous peoples, became part of the French and Spanish empires, and in 1803 was bought by the United States in the Louisiana Purchase. Drawing on archaeology and oral history, as well as documents in English, French, and Spanish, DuVal chronicles the successive migrations of Indians and Europeans to the area from precolonial times through the 1820s. These myriad native groups—Mississippians, Quapaws, Osages, Chickasaws, Caddos, and Cherokees—and the waves of Europeans all competed with one another for control of the region. Only in the nineteenth century did outsiders initiate a future in which one people would claim exclusive ownership of the mid-continent. After the War of 1812, these settlers came in numbers large enough to overwhelm the region's inhabitants and reject the early patterns of cross-cultural interdependence. As citizens of the United States, they persuaded the federal government to muster its resources on behalf of their dreams of landholding and citizenship. With keen insight and broad vision, Kathleen DuVal retells the story of Indian and European contact in a more complex and, ultimately, more satisfactory way.
Arkansas
Arkansas - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Arkansas write by Jeannie M. Whayne. This book was released on 2013-06-01. Arkansas available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Arkansas: A Narrative History is a comprehensive history of the state that has been invaluable to students and the general public since its original publication. Four distinguished scholars cover prehistoric Arkansas, the colonial period, and the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and incorporate the newest historiography to bring the book up to date for 2012. A new chapter on Arkansas geography, new material on the civil rights movement and the struggle over integration, and an examination of the state’s transition from a colonial economic model to participation in the global political economy are included. Maps are also dramatically enhanced, and supplemental teaching materials are available. “No less than the first edition, this revision of Arkansas: A Narrative History is a compelling introduction for those who know little about the state and an insightful survey for others who wish to enrich their acquaintance with the Arkansas past.” —Ben Johnson, from the Foreword
The Headpots of Northeast Arkansas and Southern Pemiscot County, Missouri
The Headpots of Northeast Arkansas and Southern Pemiscot County, Missouri - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Headpots of Northeast Arkansas and Southern Pemiscot County, Missouri write by James F. Cherry. This book was released on 2009-03-01. The Headpots of Northeast Arkansas and Southern Pemiscot County, Missouri available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In 1981, James F. Cherry embarked on what evolved into a passionate, personal quest to identify and document all the known headpots of Mississippian Indian culture from northeast Arkansas and the bootheel region of southeast Missouri. Produced by two groups the Spanish called the Casqui and Pacaha and dating circa AD 1400–1700, headpots occur, with few exceptions, only in a small region of Arkansas and Missouri. Relatively little is known about these headpots: did they portray kinsmen or enemies, the living or the dead or were they used in ceremonies, in everyday life, or exclusively for the sepulcher? Cherry’s decades of research have culminated in the lavishly illustrated The Headpots of Northeast Arkansas and Southern Pemiscot County, Missouri, a fascinating, comprehensive catalog of 138 identified classical style headpots and an invaluable resource for understanding the meaning of these remarkable ceramic vessels.
Expedition of Hernando de Soto West of the Mississippi, 1541-1543: Symposia (p)
Expedition of Hernando de Soto West of the Mississippi, 1541-1543: Symposia (p) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Expedition of Hernando de Soto West of the Mississippi, 1541-1543: Symposia (p) write by Gloria A. Young Michael P. Hoffman. This book was released on 1993. Expedition of Hernando de Soto West of the Mississippi, 1541-1543: Symposia (p) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Knights of Spain, Warriors of the Sun
Knights of Spain, Warriors of the Sun - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Knights of Spain, Warriors of the Sun write by Charles M. Hudson. This book was released on 2018. Knights of Spain, Warriors of the Sun available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Between 1539 and 1542 Hernando de Soto led a small army on a desperate journey of exploration of almost four thousand miles across the U. S. Southeast. Until the 1998 publication of Charles M. Hudson's foundational Knights of Spain, Warriors of the Sun, De Soto's path had been one of history's most intriguing mysteries. With this book, anthropologist Charles Hudson offers a solution to the question, "Where did de Soto go?" Using a new route reconstruction, for the first time the story of the de Soto expedition can be laid on a map, and in many instances it can be tied to specific archaeological sites. Arguably the most important event in the history of the Southeast in the sixteenth century, De Soto's journey cut a bloody and indelible swath across both the landscape and native cultures in a quest for gold and personal glory. The desperate Spanish army followed the sunset from Florida to Texas before abandoning its mission. De Soto's one triumph was that he was the first European to explore the vast region that would be the American South, but he died on the banks of the Mississippi River a broken man in 1542. With a new foreword by Robbie Ethridge reflecting on the continuing influence of this now classic text, the twentieth-anniversary edition of Knights is a clearly written narrative that unfolds against the exotic backdrop of a now extinct social and geographic landscape. Hudson masterfully chronicles both De Soto's expedition and the native societies he visited. A blending of archaeology, history, and historical geography, this is a monumental study of the sixteenth-century Southeast.
