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At the dawn of the 1700s the Natchez viewed the first Francophones
in the Lower Mississippi Valley as potential inductees to their
chiefdom. This mistaken perception lulled them into permitting
these outsiders to settle among them. Within two decades conditions
in Natchez Country had taken a turn for the worse. The trickle of
wayfarers had given way to a torrent of colonists (and their
enslaved Africans) who refused to recognize the Natchez's
hierarchy. These newcomers threatened to seize key
authority-generating features of Natchez Country: mounds, a plaza,
and a temple. This threat inspired these Indians to turn to a
recent import-racial categories-to re-establish social order. They
began to call themselves "red men" to reunite their polity and to
distance themselves from the "blacks" and "whites" into which their
neighbours divided themselves. After refashioning their identity,
they launched an attack that destroyed the nearby colonial
settlements. Their 1729 assault began a two-year war that resulted
in the death or enslavement of most of the Natchez people. In
Natchez Country, George Edward Milne provides the most
comprehensive history of the Lower Mississippi Valley and the
Natchez to date. From La Salle's first encounter with what would
become Louisiana to the ultimate dispersal of the Natchez by the
close of the 1730s, Milne also analyses the ways in which French
attitudes about race and slavery influenced native North American
Indians in the vicinity of French colonial settlements on the
Mississippi River and how Native Americans in turn adopted and
resisted colonial ideology.
At the dawn of the 1700s the Natchez viewed the first Francophones
in the Lower Mississippi Valley as potential inductees to their
chiefdom. This mistaken perception lulled them into permitting
these outsiders to settle among them. Within two decades conditions
in Natchez Country had taken a turn for the worse. The trickle of
wayfarers had given way to a torrent of colonists (and their
enslaved Africans) who refused to recognize the Natchez's
hierarchy. These newcomers threatened to seize key
authority-generating features of Natchez Country: mounds, a plaza,
and a temple. This threat inspired these Indians to turn to a
recent import-racial categories-to re-establish social order. They
began to call themselves "red men" to reunite their polity and to
distance themselves from the "blacks" and "whites" into which their
neighbours divided themselves. After refashioning their identity,
they launched an attack that destroyed the nearby colonial
settlements. Their 1729 assault began a two-year war that resulted
in the death or enslavement of most of the Natchez people. In
Natchez Country, George Edward Milne provides the most
comprehensive history of the Lower Mississippi Valley and the
Natchez to date. From La Salle's first encounter with what would
become Louisiana to the ultimate dispersal of the Natchez by the
close of the 1730s, Milne also analyses the ways in which French
attitudes about race and slavery influenced native North American
Indians in the vicinity of French colonial settlements on the
Mississippi River and how Native Americans in turn adopted and
resisted colonial ideology.
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