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Mississippi's American Indians (Hardcover, New)
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Mississippi's American Indians (Hardcover, New)
Series: Heritage of Mississippi Series
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At the beginning of the eighteenth century, over twenty different
American Indian tribal groups inhabited present-day Mississippi.
Today, Mississippi is home to only one tribe, the Mississippi Band
of Choctaw Indians. In Mississippi's American Indians, author James
F. Barnett Jr. explores the historical forces and processes that
led to this sweeping change in the diversity of the state's native
peoples. The book begins with a chapter on Mississippi's
approximately 12,000-year prehistory, from early hunter-gatherer
societies through the powerful mound building civilizations
encountered by the first European expeditions. With the coming of
the Spanish, French, and English to the New World, native societies
in the Mississippi region connected with the Atlantic market
economy, a source for guns, blankets, and many other trade items.
Europeans offered these trade materials in exchange for Indian
slaves and deerskins, currencies that radically altered the
relationships between tribal groups. Smallpox and other diseases
followed along the trading paths. Colonial competition between the
French and English helped to spark the Natchez rebellion, the
Chickasaw-French wars, the Choctaw civil war, and a half-century of
client warfare between the Choctaws and Chickasaws. The Treaty of
Paris in 1763 forced Mississippi's pro-French tribes to move west
of the Mississippi River. The Diaspora included the Tunicas,
Houmas, Pascagoulas, Biloxis, and a portion of the Choctaw
confederacy. In the early nineteenth century, Mississippi's
remaining Choctaws and Chickasaws faced a series of treaties with
the United States government that ended in destitution and removal.
Despite the intense pressures of European invasion, the Mississippi
tribes survived by adapting and contributing to their rapidly
evolving world.
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