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Credits | |
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Preface | |
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Introduction: The French in the Mississippi Valley | |
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La Salle Meets the Quapaws (1682) | |
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Bountiful Provisions from the Taensas (1682) | |
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"Crocodiles" of the Mississippi | |
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A Quapaw Fable | |
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Tonti's Visit with the Taensas (1682) | |
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The Versatile Persimmon | |
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La Salle Claims the Mississippi (1682) | |
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La Salle Reaches the Gulf of Mexico (1685) | |
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Lost Man and Missed River (1685) | |
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Murder of La Salle (1687) | |
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Iberville Explores the Barrier Islands (1699) | |
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Ship Island Anchorage (1699) | |
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Iberville Lands on the Gulf Coast (1699) | |
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Rattlesnake Bite and Native Remedy | |
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Hunting at Bay St. Louis (1699) | |
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Voltaire on "Discovery" | |
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The Mississippi at Last (1699) | |
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Frenchmen at the Baton Rouge (1699) | |
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Bearded Fish | |
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Armored Fish | |
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Indians Visit Fort Maurepas (1699) | |
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The Magnolia | |
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English Bend or English Turn? (1699) | |
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Sacrifice to an Angry God (1700) | |
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Natchez Cotillion | |
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Natchez Marriage Traditions | |
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Malaria at Fort Maurepas (1701) | |
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Tonti's Encounter with an Englishman (1702) | |
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Iberville's Request for Colonists (1702) | |
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Request Granted, Two Years Later (1704) | |
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Misery In the Colony (1704) | |
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Plague (1704, 1708) | |
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Indian Corn (1706) | |
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A Discriminating Woman (1707) | |
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Bienville Versus La Vente (1707) | |
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Accusations against Bienville (1707) | |
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Testimony at Bienville's Hearing (1708) | |
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Watermelon | |
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Crozat's Monopoly (1712) | |
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Bienville and Cadillac Nearly Come to Blows (1714) | |
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The Sun King of the Natchez | |
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The Grand Lever of Louis XIV | |
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Natchez Hostility (1716) | |
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Natchez Indians Agree to Build Fort Rosalie (1716) | |
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Cadillac Versus Crozat (1716) | |
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Hurricane Destroys the Port at Dauphin island (1717) | |
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John Law Takes Control (1717) | |
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Indians Ravaged by European Diseases (1718) | |
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Slave Sale in Mobile (1719) | |
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Old Biloxi or New Biloxi? (1720) | |
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Mudbug | |
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L'ecrevisse et sa Fille | |
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Hunger and Death In Biloxi (1720) | |
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Mississippi Bubble (1720) | |
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Voltaire on Crozat and Law | |
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St. Catherine Concession (1721) | |
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Cassette Girls Arrive at Ship Island (1721) | |
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Manon Lescaut | |
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A Smelly Situation | |
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High Risk for Malpractice (1722) | |
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The Black Code (1724) | |
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Treatment of African Slaves | |
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Christian Priest Describes a Natchez Funeral | |
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Serpent Pique Regrets the Coming of the French (1724) | |
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The Promise of Rice (1725) | |
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Flying Squirrels | |
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"Cannibals" at Fontainebleau (1725) | |
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Choctaw Ball Game | |
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Causes of the Natchez Rebellion (1729) | |
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Natchez Council's Decision to Rebel (1729) | |
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Official Account of Tragedy at Natchez (1730) | |
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Germ Warfare (1731) | |
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African in Indian Captivity (1731) | |
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Banbara Slave Revolt in New Orleans (1731) | |
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Among the Choctaw Villages (1732) | |
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Dry Feet in New Orleans (1732) | |
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Nuns, Orphans, and Widows (1732) | |
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Death of Pierre d'Artaguette (1736) | |
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Failed Prisoner Exchange (1737) | |
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Alabama Indian Burial Rites | |
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A Young Officer's War Journal (1742) | |
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Chickasaws Bargain for Peace (1743) | |
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Requests of a Hostage (1743) | |
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Red Shoe's Request for Trading Posts (1744) | |
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A Doubly Valuable Animal | |
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A Tree with Knees | |
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Beauchamp's Journal (1746) | |
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Choctaw Civil War (1748) | |
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Divided Loyalties (1749) | |
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Uneasy Peace with the Choctaw Nation (1751) | |
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Choctaw Ethics (1751) | |
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European Barbarians | |
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Crime and Punishment (1757) | |
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Crime and Punishment Revisited (1757) | |
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Continual Lack of Supplies (1757) | |
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Violence Narrowly Averted (1758) | |
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English Plans Thwarted (1759) | |
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English Ships Allowed in New Orleans (1760) | |
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Chef Menteur | |
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French Reliance on the Choctaw Nation (1760) | |
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Weakening Defense of New Orleans (1761) | |
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Treaty of Paris (1763) | |
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Transfer of Indian Alliance (1763) | |
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Rousseau on the Indians of America (1755) | |
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Chateaubriand's Prologue to Atala (1801) | |
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Legend of the Mississippi from Chateaubriand's Rene | |
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Vocabulary | |
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Bibliography | |