Opening book details…
Can I read The Catholic Calumet: Colonial Conversions in French and Indian North America (Early American Studies) on EtoBox?
The Catholic Calumet: Colonial Conversions in French and Indian North America (Early American Studies) by Tracy Neal Leavelle is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Catholic Calumet: Colonial Conversions in French and Indian North America (Early American Studies) about?
In 1730 a delegation of Illinois Indians arrived in the French colonial capital of New Orleans. An Illinois leader presented two ceremonial pipes, or calumets, to the governor. One calumet represented the diplomatic alliance between the two men and the other symbolized their shared attachment to Catholicism. The priest who documented this exchange also reported with excitement how the Illinois recited prayers and sang hymns in their Native language, a display that astonished the residents of New
Who reads The Catholic Calumet: Colonial Conversions in French and Indian North America (Early American Studies)?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Tracy Neal Leavelle
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
- Published
- 2011
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780812207040
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Religion, History, American Studies
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
Other editions & translations
More by Tracy Neal Leavelle
Browse all works by Tracy Neal Leavelle
Similar books
- Class Matters: Early North America and the Atlantic World (Early American Studies) — Middleton, Simon; Smith, Billy G. (2008)
- Property and Dispossession: Natives, Empires and Land in Early Modern North America (Studies in North American Indian History) — Allan Greer (2018)
- Seasons of Misery: Catastrophe and Colonial Settlement in Early America (Early American Studies) — Series editors: (2014)
- Zamumo's Gifts: Indian-European Exchange in the Colonial Southeast (Early American Studies) — Hall, Jr., Joseph M. (2009)
- Colonial Complexions: Race and Bodies in Eighteenth-Century America (Early American Studies) — Sharon Block; ProQuest (Firm) (2018)
- A Not-So-New World: Empire and Environment in French Colonial North America (Early American Studies) — Christopher M. Parsons (2018)
