Title Paths to a middle ground : the diplomacy of Natchez, Boukfouka, Nogales, and San Fernando de las Barrancas, 1791-1795 / Charles A. Weeks

Published Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, ©2005

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Description 1 online resource (x, 292 pages) : illustrations, maps Series UPCC book collections on Project MUSE Contents Contents; Part II; Maps and Diagrams; Preface; Introduction: An Argument; Part I; 1. Initial and Sustained Contacts in the Gulf South: From Violence to Diplomacy; 2. Forging Diplomatic Paths: Native Participants; 3. Forging Diplomatic Paths: Emergence of a Culture of Diplomacy; 4. The Nogales Dispute, 17911792: Some Immediate Antecedents; 5. Diplomacy of the Nogales Dispute, 17911792; 6. Paths to Boukfouka and the Tombigbee, 17921793; 7. Tangled and Twisted Paths to Nogales; 8. The Nogales Assembly, 1793; 9. PathsRiver and Otherfrom Nogales to San Fernando de las Barrancas Part III: Documents1. Diary of Gayoso's Journey to Nogales, March 24April 23, 1791; 2. Franchimastab and Taboca to Gayoso, May 14, 1791; 3. Gayoso's Reply to Franchimastab and Taboca, May 28, 1791; 4. Diary of Minor's First Mission to the Choctaws May 30 to June 13, 1791; 5. Gayoso on Minor's Mission to the Choctaws, July 1, 1791; 6. Gayoso to Franchimastab, March 12, 1792; 7. Diary of Stephen Minor's Second Mission to the Ch Summary Charles Weeks explores the diplomacy of Spanish colonial officials in New Orleans and Natchez in order to establish posts on the Mississippi River and Tombigbee rivers in the early 1790s. Another purpose of this diplomacy, urged by Indian leaders and embraced by Spanish officials, was the formation of a regional Indian confederation that would deter American expansion into Indian lands. Weeks shows how diplomatic relations were established and maintained in the Gulf South between Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek, and Cherokee chiefs and their Spanish counterparts aided by traders who had become integr Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-278) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL Print version record digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject Indians of North America -- Government relations -- 1789-1869. Spaniards -- Mississippi -- Natchez -- History -- 18th century Spaniards -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- History -- 18th century Colonial administrators -- Mississippi -- Natchez -- History -- 18th century Colonial administrators -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- History -- 18th century Political culture -- Mississippi -- Natchez Region -- History -- 18th century -- Sources Political culture -- Alabama -- Mobile Region -- History -- 18th century -- Sources SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- General. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies. Colonial administrators Ethnic relations Indians of North America -- Government relations Political culture Spaniards Diplomatie SUBJECT Natchez Region (Miss.) -- Ethnic relations Mobile Region (Ala.) -- Ethnic relations Tombigbee River Region (Miss. and Ala.) -- Ethnic relations Subject Alabama -- Mobile Region Louisiana -- New Orleans Mississippi -- Natchez Mississippi -- Natchez Region Natchez, Miss. -- Region New Orleans, La. Spanier. Indianer. Genre/Form History Sources Form Electronic book LC no. 2005002043 ISBN 9780817385224 0817385223 9780817356453 0817356452

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