HIST 3071 : LA HIST EXAM 1
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Land routes that don"t exist today: louisianans here 10,000 years ago. Prehistoric people: paleo-people, 10,000 6,500 b. c, meso-people, 6,500 2,000 b. c, neo-people (where we start, 2,000 b. c. 1,700 a. d: poverty point (ca 1,700 1,100 bc, north east corner of present la, hunters and gatherers, first contact (ca 1540 a. d. ) How made contact first: desoto 1539 1542, lasalle 1682, french colonizers (iberville/ bienville) 1700, dozens of groups lives in la, euros didn"t come to a big empty land, caddo, natchez, choctaw, chitimacha, tunica, houma, atakapa. Antoine simon lepage du pratz: histore de la louisiane 1758, frenchman, writer and artist, did drawings 24 years after leaving la, drawings are flawed- extremely european. Is it possible to understand native americans using euro sources: if historians think carefully, critically and imaginatively then sure. - Prof long: most native americans did not record their history all we have is euro version.
