HIST 3071 Lecture : Lecture 1 August 29
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Antoine-simon le page du pratz: histoire de la louisiane (1758) Indians, settlers, & slaves in a frontier exchange economy. Pre-contact native americans: 10000 to 6,500 b. c. : paleo-amerindians: believed to have crossed a land bridge from asia and followed animals to louisiana, hunter gathers, mastodons main source, did not engage in agriculture, ancient residence, 6,500 to 2,000 b. c. Poverty point: west carroll parish, louisiana, located in north louisiana, constructed ca. Americans: pots, blankets, knives, & guns: way of hunting and fighting changes. Indians were the villains, or savages: gradually the perspective changed and native americans were seen as victims, asks us to rethink about these terms, frontier not just a boundary across which advanced societies penetrate primitive ones. Doesn"t believe a frontier moves in just one direction: exchange how people of different cultures relate to the influence each others in daily life. Exchange what they have like food and deer skins in exchange of.
