Calumet & Fleur-De-Lys Archaeology of Indian and French Contact in the Midcontinent by Walthall, John A. & Thomas E. Emerson (Eds. ) - 1992

viii+307 pages with tables, maps, plates, figures and charts. Royal octavo (9 1/4" x 6 1/4") bound in original green publisher's cloth with silver lettering to spine. First edition. Despite increased research interest in the interaction of native North American peoples and Europeans, little attention has been directed toward Indian-Franch interactions-even though for more than a century the French controlled an area of the interior more than twice the size of the combined North American territories of Great Britain and Spain. Calumet and Fluer-de-Lys focuses on historic Native American sites and archaeological evidence of native interaction with the French from the landing of Jean Nicollet in Green Bay in 1634 to the surrender of French America to the British in 1765. It integrates, for the first time, historical documents of the French politicians, explores, priests, and traders with the archaeological record of numerous mid-continental native and French colonial sites. The essays cover the full… Read More

Smithsonian Institution Press, 1992. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Very good, clean, tight condition. Text free of marks. Professional book dealer since 1999. All orders are processed promptly and carefully packaged.

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