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La Harpe's post : a tale of French-Wichita contact on the eastern plains
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"This contribution to contact period studies points to the Lasley Vore site in modern Oklahoma, 13 miles south of Tulsa along the Arkansas River, as the most likely first meeting place of Plains In...
"This contribution to contact period studies points to the Lasley Vore site in modern Oklahoma, 13 miles south of Tulsa along the Arkansas River, as the most likely first meeting place of Plains Indians and Europeans more than 300 years ago. Odell presents a full account of the presumed location of the Tawakoni village visited by Jean-Baptiste Benard, Sieur de la Harpe about 1718, as revealed through the analysis of excavated materials by nine specialist collaborators. In a well-written narrative report, employing careful study and innovative analysis supported by appendixes containing the excavation data, Odell combines documentary history and archaeological evidence to pinpoint the probable site of the first European contact with North American Plains Indians."--BOOK JACKET.
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- Creator
- George H. Odell ; with appendixes by Marie E. Brown ... [and others]
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- English
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- Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, [2002]
- ©2002
- Physical Details
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- xx, 369 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780817382155, 0817382151, 9780817311629, 0817311629
- OCLC
- ocm48906403, ocn320324529
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [339]-359) and index.
- 1. The Land That Knew No European -- 2. Who Were These Indians? -- 3. The New World as Political Pawn -- 4. Industry Presents an Opportunity -- 5. A Testimony to Storage and Cooking -- 6. Teasing Meaning from Bits and Pieces -- 7. What Were Those People Doing There? -- 8. Hypothesizing the Eighteenth Century -- App. 1. Floodplain Geomorphology / John C. Dixon -- App. 2. Feature Data / George H. Odell and Eric J. Menzel -- App. 3. Observations on the Faunal Remains from 34TU65 / Bonnie C. Yates, Marie E. Brown and Lee Anna Schniebs -- App. 4. Ceramic Techniques / Joe B. Thompson -- App. 5. Lithic Analysis / George H. Odell -- App. 6. Glass Beads from a Protohistoric Wichita Indian Site in Tulsa Country, Oklahoma / Mary Elizabeth Good and Frieda Vereecken-Odell -- App. 7. Metal Artifacts from the Lasley Vore Site / Mary Elizabeth Good, Lee Good and George H. Odell -- App. 8. Radiocarbon Dates / George H. Odell -- App. 9. Statistical Analyses / George H. Odell -- App. 10. Pottery Clays / Kenneth L. Shingleton, Jr. and George H. Odell -- App. 11. Small-Sized Debitage Analysis / Isabella Muntz
Subjects
- Bénard de La Harpe, Jean Baptiste, 1683-1765 -- Travel -- Oklahoma.
- Bénard de La Harpe, Jean Baptiste, 1683-1765 -- Relations with Indians.
- Tawakoni Indians -- First contact with other peoples.
- Wichita Indians -- First contact with other peoples.
- Acculturation -- Oklahoma -- History -- 18th century.
- Frontier and pioneer life -- Oklahoma.
- Indians of North America -- Oklahoma -- Antiquities.
- Oklahoma -- Discovery and exploration -- French.
- Oklahoma -- Ethnic relations.
- Oklahoma -- Antiquities.