By George H. Odell
ISBN-10: 0817311629
ISBN-13: 9780817311629
ISBN-10: 0817382151
ISBN-13: 9780817382155
This significant contribution to touch interval experiences issues to the Lasley Vore website in glossy Oklahoma because the probably first assembly position of Plains Indians and Europeans greater than three hundred years in the past.
In 1718, Jean-Baptiste Bénard, Sieur de los angeles Harpe, departed St. Malo in Brittany for the recent international. los angeles Harpe, a member of the French bourgeoisie, arrived at Dauphin Island at the Gulf coast to take in the entrepreneurial concession supplied by means of the director of the French colony, Jean Baptiste LeMoyne de Bienville. los angeles Harpe's cost was once to open a buying and selling submit at the crimson River simply above a Caddoan village no longer faraway from present-day Texarkana. Following the institution of this submit, los angeles Harpe ventured farther north to increase his alternate industry into the zone occupied by means of the Wichita Indians. right here he encountered a Tawakoni village with an predicted 6,000 population, a bunch that swelled to 7,000 through the ten-day visit.
Despite years of ethnohistoric and archaeological learn, no pupil had effectively verified the place this significant assembly came about. Then in 1988, George Odell and his workforce surveyed and excavated a space thirteen miles south of Tulsa, alongside the Arkansas River, that exposed indisputable organization of local American habitation refuse with 18th-century eu alternate goods.
Odell the following provides a whole account of the presumed place of the Tawakoni village as published during the research of excavated fabrics from 9 professional collaborators. In a strikingly well-written narrative file, using cautious examine and leading edge research supported by means of appendixes containing the excavation facts, Odell combines documentary heritage and archaeological facts to pinpoint the possible website of the 1st ecu touch with North American Plains Indians.
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D. 200 (Schlesier 1994:328), but the idea remains very controversial. Even in more recent times, correlations with archaeological assemblages are not very clear. For instance, when the Late Prehistoric Dismal R iver Culture of eastern Kansas and Nebraska and western Colorado was ¤rst discovered, it was proclaimed ancestral Apache on the basis of its distinctive pottery made from micaceous clay. The correspondence has grown a bit foggier, however, as scholars have realized that several Dismal R iver cultural traits, including method of burial, do not ¤t historic Apache patterns (Newcomb 1961:105; Perry 1991:141–142; Wedel 1961:113).
2000; Hawley and Haury 1994). Oñate returned to the Pueblos empty-handed, was reviled by many, and subsequently tendered his resignation. No other European expedition is known to have visited the Wichita until the separate French excursions of 1719 led by Du Tisné and La Harpe. Archaeological Antecedents of Wichita Culture The strongest archaeological evidence for antecedents to the historically known Wichita tribe comes from central Kansas in several clusters of late prehistoric settlements known collectively as the Great Bend Aspect.
However, these problems have not prevented some scholars from employing the archaeological record to postulate an arrival of Athabascan groups considerably earlier than the short chronology proposed by the Gunnersons and others. For example, Karl Schlesier has postulated an Apachean correspondence with the Avonlea II culture of east-central Idaho and southwestern Montana, which he thinks developed directly into the Fremont Culture. d. 200 (Schlesier 1994:328), but the idea remains very controversial.
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