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Indians of North America--Mississippi--History--Sources, Mississippi--Discovery and exploration, Mississippi--History--Sources.
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1994
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E78.M73W45 1994eb
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976.2/00497
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Indians of North America--Mississippi--History--Sources, Mississippi--Discovery and exploration, Mississippi--History--Sources.
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Native Land
Mississippi 1540-1798
Mary Ann Wells
University Press of Mississippi Jackson
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Copyright 1994 by the University Press of Mississippi All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America
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The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on Library Resources.
Title page and chapter openings: Rattlesnake motif from southeastern Indian Pottery. After a drawing in Bert Bierer, Indian Artifacts of the Southeast, 1977.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in Publication Data
Wells, Mary Ann, 1944 Native land: Mississippi, 1540-1798 / Mary Ann Wells. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-87805-733-1 (cloth : alk. paper).ISBN 0-87805-734-X (pbk. : alk. paper) I. Indians of North AmericaMississippiHistorySources. 2. MississippiDiscovery and exploration. 3. MississippiHistory Sources. I. Title. E78.M73W45 1994 976.200497dc20 94-18460 CIP
British Library Cataloging-in-Publication data available
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To the memory of my uncle, John Dee Dye, who first told me the old stories
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Contents
Introduction
ix
Chapter 1 Rumors of a Hungry God
1
Chapter 2 The "Black Legend" Invades Mississippi
11
Chapter 3 Mississippi Fights Back
21
Chapter 4 Survivors
28
Chapter 5 Pursuing Dreams
34
Chapter 6 Rivals
43
Chapter 7 Establishing the Colony
48
Chapter 8 Life at Fort Biloxi
59
Chapter 9 Exploring the Wilderness
64
Chapter 10 Reports from the Field
71
Chapter 11 Forging Alliances
76
Chapter 12 Peace Dissolves
83
Chapter 13 Hush, or I'll Send You to Mississippi
90
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Chapter 14 The Lament of the Tattooed Serpent
107
Chapter 15 The Natchez Uprising
119
Chapter 16 The Elusive Choctaws and the Chickasaw Wars
132
Chapter 17 A Sort of Civil War
142
Chapter 18 Are Not Frenchmen Our Brothers?: The French and Indian War
153
Chapter 19 A Rage for Speaking
165
Chapter 20 Plundering Natchez
173
Chapter 21 Spanish Mississippi
185
Chapter 22 Native Complaints
194
Chapter 23 Drawing the Line
201
Source Notes
209
Bibliography
221
Index
227
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Introduction
"Mississippi." In the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, French people spoke the word tenderly, as if they were caressing a dream. Mississippi became the common name not only for the area of the modern state but for all of the new Louisiana colony; it was a word that conjured up images of exotic adventures in a mysterious, unknown land that might even promise great wealth. For a while dreams of wealth overshadowed most other considerations. Then stockbrokers and speculators bilked the public and the dream went sour. The Mississippi Bubble burst. Firsthand reports from returning visitors made life in the new colony seem more like a nightmare than a dream. The name came to mean financial ruin, disease and a life worse than death. Distraught French mothers warned unruly children that if they did not behave they would end up in Mississippi. This traumatic beginning of modern Mississippi's historic period of European colonization foreshadowed the future as well as reflecting the past and the disillusionment of the area's earliest European visitors. The first French explorers came down the Mississippi River in the 1670s and 1680s, establishing a continuing presence in the region in 1699, but first contact between the native world of Mississippi and Europeans had come much earlier. In 1540 Hernando de Soto's expedition battled with Tascalusa (Choctaw for "black warrior") in modern-day Alabama, crossed the Tombigbee River, and set up a winter camp in Mississippi's Chickasaw country.
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