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The Natchez Indians: A History to 1735 Kindle Edition

by James F. Barnett (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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The Natchez Indians: A History to 1735 is the story of the Natchez Indians as revealed through accounts of Spanish, English, and French explorers, missionaries, soldiers, and colonists, and in the archaeological record. Because of their strategic location on the Mississippi River, the Natchez Indians played a crucial part in the European struggle for control of the Lower Mississippi Valley. The book begins with the brief confrontation between the Hernando de Soto expedition and the powerful Quigualtam chiefdom, presumed ancestors of the Natchez. In the late seventeenth century, René-Robert Cavelier de La Salle's expedition met the Natchez and initiated sustained European encroachment, exposing the tribe to sickness and the dangers of the Indian slave trade.

The Natchez Indians portrays the way that the Natchez coped with a rapidly changing world, became entangled with the political ambitions of two European superpowers, France and England, and eventually disappeared as a people. The author examines the shifting relationships among the tribe's settlement districts and the settlement districts' relationships with neighboring tribes and with the Europeans. The establishment of a French fort and burgeoning agricultural colony in their midst signaled the beginning of the end for the Natchez people. Barnett has written the most complete and detailed history of the Natchez to date.

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This is the most comprehensive history of the Natchez Indians to appear since John Swanton's classic work of nearly a century ago. It is a worthy successor, as Barnett brings together a wealth of recent scholarship in an eminently readable book. -- Vincas P. Steponaitis, professor and director, Research Laboratory of Archaeology, University of North Carolina

With the publication of this volume, at long last a book-length treatise on the Natchez Indians exists. Despite being one of the most well-known tribes in the Southeast, until now the complex and exciting story of the Natchez has remained hidden in scholarly articles. James Barnett has changed all of this in his telling of the Natchez story. The Natchez Indians: A History to 1735 is an absolute must for anyone interested in the indigenous peoples of the southeastern United States and the many roles that these people played in fashioning our nation. -- Ian W. Brown, professor of anthropology, University of Alabama

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The most complete and detailed examination of a vanished tribe

---Emphasizes the Natchez' pivotal role in the contest between France and England and the tribe's interaction with neighboring tribes

---Includes 10 maps of Natchez settlements and important sites

---Provides the perspective of a local author and specialist in Natchez Indian history

---Creates the only full-length history of the Natchez

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B001LRPQ82
Publisher ‏ : ‎ University Press of Mississippi (November 1, 2007)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ November 1, 2007
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 2511 KB
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Print length ‏ : ‎ 224 pages

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T. D. Hudson

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Mr. Barnett has written a fascinating story of the Natchez nation between 1680 and 1735. His writing style is quite enjoyable, and his work appears well researched and fully documented. I found his account of the relationship and eventual conflict between the Natchez and French riveting and highly informative.

The title implies a thorough history of the Natchez down to 1735, but the book primarily focuses upon the 53-year period between 1682, the first recorded contact between the Natchez and Europeans since de Soto's expedition in 1541-1543, and 1735, when the remnants of the Natchez who escaped the French dispersed among the Chickasaw, Cherokee, and Creek nations. This discrepancy is my main complaint about the book. Although Mr. Barnett gives an interesting account of the conflict between de Soto's men and the Ouigualtam warrior boatmen on the Mississippi River, he does not delve extensively into a discussion of the Mississippian culture chiefdoms of the 1500s and how they devolved into the Natchez culture of the latter 1600s. Mr. Barnett appears to have an archaeological background, and I would have enjoyed a more thorough discussion of the prevailing theories of the origins of the Natchez civilization that the French encountered in the latter 1600s. Other than this minor quibble about how the book is titled, I highly recommend it.

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