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Wild Frenchmen and Frenchified Indians : material culture and race in colonial Louisiana
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- Creator
- Sophie White
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- First edition
- Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2012]
- ©2012
- Series
- Physical Details
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- viii, 329 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780812244373, 0812244370
- OCLC
- ocn785870989
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [281]-317) and index.
- 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"
Subjects
- French -- Louisiana -- History -- 18th century.
- Indians of North America -- Louisiana -- History -- 18th century.
- Race awareness -- Louisiana -- History -- 18th century.
- Material culture -- Louisiana -- History -- 18th century.
- Clothing and dress -- Social aspects -- Louisiana -- History -- 18th century.
- Louisiana -- Race relations -- History -- 18th century.