...Jessica R. Cattelino Recognition Odysseys: Indigeneity, Race, and Federal Tribal Recognition Policy in Three Louisiana Indian Communities . By Klopotek Brian . ( Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2011 . xii + 391 pp., acknowledgments, introduction, appendix, notes, bibliography...

...Matthew Babcock This article examines cultural and economic relations between Euro-Americans and Indians in Colonial Nacogdoches and the Texas-Louisiana borderlands in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Challenging scholarly claims of regional primitivism and economic stagnation...

...Kathleen DuVal Wild Frenchmen and Frenchified Indians: Material Culture and Race in Colonial Louisiana . By White Sophie . ( Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press , 2012 . viii + 329 pp., introduction, 33 color plates, 15 b&w figures, bibliography, index, acknowledgments...

...Shannon Lee Dawdy Using new archaeological data and colonial narratives, I reconstruct the menu of French colonial Louisiana with the aim of showing how the sensual and social experience of eating relates to the political rationalities of colonialism. In Louisiana, food practices enunciated...

... and Coushatta marketing techniques over time. As members of the Coushatta community in Louisiana pushed for federal recognition, basketry became an important symbol of potential economic self-sufficiency and indigenous identity. After federal recognition, basketry served as an important part of the community's...

...Elizabeth Ellis Natchez Country: Indians, Colonists, and the Landscapes of Race in French Louisiana . By Milne George Edward . ( Athens : University of Georgia Press , 2015 . xv + 312 pp., acknowledgments, introduction, figures, index . $26.95 paper.) Copyright 2016 by American...

...Dave D. Davis Throughout the twentieth century, anthropologists and historians have regarded the Houma Indians of southern Louisiana as the descendants of the Houma Indians encountered along the Mississippi River by French explorers and settlers in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Oral...

... in the Chesapeake Bay region, and spanning Louisiana, Minnesota, New York, Northern Mexico, Ohio, Spanish Florida, and Texas in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, including an Underground Railroad from Michigan into Canada. Also discussed are a system of inter-Indian diplomacy that stretched across the United...

...Noel E. Smyth Abstract In 1731 a French army in colonial Louisiana enslaved hundreds of Natchez families and shipped them to Saint-Domingue where they mostly disappear from the written records. This article analyzes tantalizing clues about Natchez families and other Native American slaves...

... firmly to the group’s African and African-American ancestry. In Davis’s view, these people sought to avoid the racism of south- ern Louisiana by passing as Indians; hence, the creation of what Davis calls the ‘‘new Houma Indians Davis’s allegations are serious in that they involve the United Houma...

...Carli LaPierre While the city is not geographically central to the United States, the authors of French St. Louis successfully demonstrate its significance within multiple contexts and well beyond the signing of the Louisiana Purchase. Both French and American, Eastern and Western, Northern...

... the headline “Shocking Indian Murders.” The newspaper reported that one Isaac Pennington had just returned from a frightening experience. While he and twenty other men were hunting on the Red River, near the border of Arkansas Territory and the state of Louisiana, a band of two hundred Indians had...

... Community. M.A. thesis , Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge. Response to Campisi and Starns Dave Davis, University of Southern Maine When I submitted ‘‘A Case of Identity: Ethnogenesis of the New Houma Indians’’ to Ethnohistory, my only concern was that its publication might provoke...

... and the native commu- nities through whose homelands exploration occurred. While the fateful and, for some, fortuitous Louisiana Purchase (1803) usually serves as a prologue to the expedition, Thomas Jefferson’s most famous acquisition is often not contextualized in the larger imperial currents swirling...

... research that studies the nuances and complexities of exchanges and alliances in the Native American cultural experience. Christine Paul, a Chitimacha woman living along the winding reaches of Bayou Teche, Louisiana, is the central focus in a story that illustrates the significance of material culture...

... negotiations with the French. Matthew Babcock, in “Roots of Independence: Transcultural Trade in the Texas-­Louisiana Borderlands,” addresses the plurality of this fron- tier area and challenges the tired notion of it as a region steeped in stagna- tion and despair. Babcock uncovers an intricate story...

...Robert C. Schwaller Women of the Iberian Atlantic . Edited by Owens Sarah E. and Mangan Jane E. . ( Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press , 2012 . vi + 278 pp., introduction, index . $26.95 paper.) Copyright 2014 by American Society for Ethnohistory 2014 592...

...). Published reports of ancient monuments in North America intrigued Jefferson inspiring him to instruct explorers of the newly acquired Louisiana Purchase to collect data about potential Indian monuments. He specifically encouraged Meriwether Lewis and William Clark to search for ancient Indian monuments...