Indiana: Further Reading and Links

General

Barnhart, John D. and Dorothy L. Riker. 1971. Indiana to 1816: The Colonial Period. Indiana Historical Society, Indianapolis.

Bigham, Darrel E. 2001. Indiana Territory, A Bicentennial Perspective. Indiana History Society, Indianapolis.

Cayton, Andrew R. L. 1996. Frontier Indiana. Indiana University Press, Bloomington and Indianapolis.

Indiana Department of Natural Resources brochure: https://www.in.gov/dnr/historic-preservation/files/archaeofrench.pdf

Madison, James H. 1986. The Indiana Way: A State History. Indiana State Historical Association, Indianapolis.

Wood, Mary Elizabeth. 1977. French Imprint on the Heart of America. The Bookmark, Knightstown, Indiana.

Native People

Edmunds, R. David. 1978. The Potawatomis: Keepers of the Fire. University of Oklahoma Press, Norman.

Mann, Rob. 2007. “True Portraiture of the Indians, and of Their Own Peculiar Conceits of Dress”: Discourses of Dress and Identity in the Great Lakes, 1830-1850. Historical Archaeology 41:1, pp. 37-52.

Sleeper-Smith, Susan. 2001. Indian Women and French Men: Rethinking Cultural Encounter in the Western Great Lakes. University of Massachusetts Press, Amherst, Massachusetts

For Miami view of land “ownership”: Four Versions of a Little Turtle Speech at Greenville, 1795. https://aacimotaatiiyankwi.org/2021/04/13/four-versions-of-a-little-turtle-speech-at-greenville-1795/

Miami Tribe of Oklahoma: https://miamination.com

Pokagon Band of Potawatomi: https://www.pokagonband-nsn.gov/

Citizen Potawatomi Tribe: https://www.potawatomiheritage.com/

History of Piankashaw and Wea peoples: https://peoriatribe.com/history/https://peoriatribe.com/history/#piankashaw ; https://peoriatribe.com/history/#wea

George Winter art collection: https://collections.lib.purdue.edu/winter/index.html

Early French Explorers

Boissoneault, Lorraine. 2016. The Last Voyageurs: Retracing La Salle’s Journey across America. Pegasus Books, New York. (story of students who recreated the La Salle trip)

Canadian Museum of History: https://www.historymuseum.ca/virtual-museum-of-new-france/the-explorers/

Coulter, Tony. 1991. La Salle and the Explorers of the Mississippi. Chelsea House, New York.

Fur Trade and French Posts

Chartrand, René and Kevin Gélinas. 2024. Frontier Soldiers of New France Volume 1. Regulation Clothing, Armament, and Equipment of the Colonial Troops in New France (1683-1760). Helion and Company, Warwick, UK. https://www.helion.co.uk/military-history-books/frontier-soldiers-of-new-france-volume-1-regulation-clothing-armament-and-equipment-of-the-colonial-troops-in-new-france-1683-1760.php

Indiana Department of Natural Resources. ND. Archaeology and the French Culture in Indiana. Compiled by Amy Johnson. https://www.in.gov/dnr/historic-preservation/files/archaeofrench.pdf

Jackson, Misty M., H. Cory Cooper, and David M. Hovde. 2024. The History and Archaeology of Fort Ouiatenon: 300 Years in the Making. Purdue University Press, West Lafayette.

Strezewski, Michael. 2024. French Colonial History and Archaeology at Fort Miamis and Vincennes. In The History and Archaeology of Fort Ouiatenon: 300 Years in the Making. Purdue University Press, West Lafayette, 81-101

French Settlement

Day, Richard. 1994. Vincennes: A Pictorial History. G. Bradley Publishing, St. Louis

Gentilcore, R. Louis. 1957. Vincennes and French Settlement in the Old Northwest. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 47:3, 285-297.

Mann, Rob. 2008. From Ethnogenesis to Ethnic Segmentation in the Wabash Valley: Constructing Identity and Houses in Great Lakes Fur Trade Society. International Journal of Historic Archaeology 12: 319-337.

Mann, Rob and Rick Jones. 1991-92. Zachariah Cicott, 19th Century French Canadian Fur Trader: Ethnohistoric and Archaeological Perspectives on Ethnic Identity in the Wabash Valley. In Selected Papers from the 1991 And 1992 George Rogers Clark Trans-Appalachian Frontier History Conferences, ed. Robert J. Holden, pp. 129-143. Eastern National Park and Monuments Association and Vincennes University, Vincennes, Indiana http://npshistory.com/series/symposia/george_rogers_clark/1991-1992/sec8.htm

Strezewski, Michael. 2008. Archaeological Investigations at Kethtippecanunk: A French and Native Trading Town on the Wabash River. Center for French Colonial Studies Le Journal 24:2 https://www.frenchcolonialstudies.org/uploads/b/9f7234c0-96bb-11e9-bbc6-216d6a196288/LeJournal_24.2.pdf


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