Seventeenth century North America

This book is a "review of the impact of European colonialization on the cultural and natural landscapes of native North America. In this text ... the author has focused on rare & neglected first-hand French and Spanish source materials to provide us with ecologically and ethnographically ri...

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Main Author: Sauer, Carl Ortwin, 1889-1975.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : Turtle Island, 1980.
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Online Access:French equivalent / Équivalent français
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Table of Contents:
  • Legacy of the Sixteenth century
  • Florida, Northeastern Borderland of New Spain
  • California, Entry-way from the Orient to New Spain
  • New Mexico reentered
  • The first decade of Spanish rule in New Mexico (1598-1608)
  • Pubelo decline and revolt
  • Seas and shores about and beyond Newfoundland
  • France seeks a location for a colony
  • Conflicting interests in Acadia: decline of Indian population
  • Canada in the time of Champlain
  • Return of the French: destruction of Indian Nations by feud and disease (1632-1663)
  • The Great Lakes explored
  • The Crown Colony/Jesuit Missions on the Great Lakes (1663-1672)
  • The Mississippi Valley explored by Joliet and Marquettee
  • La Salle's Louisiana Project
  • To Louisiana by Way of the Gulf of Mexico
  • French Settlement on the Texas Coast
  • From the Brazos to the Arkansas River
  • Louisiana Administered by Tonty
  • Notices of Louisiana at the end of the century
  • Apocryphal accounts of Louisiana
  • Review of land and biota
  • Native peoples and cultures
  • The European impress on native ways
  • Decline in Indian population
  • The end of the century.