French Americans--Native Americans in eighteenth-century French colonial Louisiana: The population geography of the Illinois Indians, 1670s-1760s : ...

by Joseph Zitomersky

This study examines the settlement and population patterns of the Illinois Indians in the context of French organization, occupation and settlement in North America in the 17th and 18th centuries. It argues that French Americans maintained close, continuous relations with the Native peoples of the continent spatially by a particularly French approach to territorial organization that emphasized structured, locally collective and regionally extensive urban and proto-urban forms of settlement establishment and interaction.

412 pages, Unknown Binding

First published January 1, 1994