Wild Frenchmen and Frenchified Indians : material culture and race in colonial Louisiana

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: White, Sophie.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2012.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Early American studies
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Table of Contents:
  • Frenchification in the Illinois country. "Their manner of living" ; "Nothing of the Sauvage" ; "One people and one god"
  • Frenchified indians and wild frenchmen in New Orleans. "The first Creole from this colony that we have received": Sister Ste. Marthe and the limits of frenchification ; "To ensure that he not give himself over to the sauvages": cleanliness, crease, and skin color ; "We are all sauvages": frenchmen into indians
  • Epilogue: "true French"