Based on a sweeping range of archival, visual, and material evidence, "Wild Frenchmen and Frenchified Indians" examines perceptions of Indians in French colonial Louisiana and demonstrates that material culture especially dress was central to the elaboration of discourses about race.
At the heart of France's seventeenth-century plans for colonizing New France was a formal policy Frenchification. Intended to turn Indians into Catholic subjects of the king, it also carried with it the belief that Indians could become French through religion, language, and culture. This fluid and mutable...
Based on a sweeping range of archival, visual, and material evidence, "Wild Frenchmen and Frenchified Indians" examines perceptions of Indians in F...
She is alone. She hasn't seen a relative or another of her kind since her adolescence. Loneliness is her constant companion from sunrise to sunset, day in and day out, and year after year. Through the vast savannah, she rambles aimlessly-or she wanders in search of a mate. Whichever it is, time is running out. Now, she is about to pass her prime; will she find a mate? SHE IS DESPERATE FOR COMPANIONSHIP In Zambia, Africa, only one lioness is left roaming Zambia's vast Liuwa Plain: her pride and other lions were wiped out by humans and lack of food stock. She has been alone for nearly eight...
She is alone. She hasn't seen a relative or another of her kind since her adolescence. Loneliness is her constant companion from sunrise to sunset, da...
