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A Kingdom of Water: Adaptation and Survival in the Houma Nation

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A study of how the United Houma Nation in Louisiana has successfully navigated a changing series of political and social landscapes since 1699.

Author(s): J. Daniel d'Oney
Series: Indians of the Southeast
Edition: pdf
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Year: 2020

Language: English
Commentary: cover is all glitched-out in file
Pages: 228
City: Lincoln

List of Illustrations | ix
Acknowledgments | xi
Introduction: To Cast a Wide Net | xv
1. “He and I Shall Be but One”: The Forging of Houma and French Alliances | 1
2. “We Should Be Obligated to Destroy Them”: Houma Remove to Bayou St. John and Ascension | 17
3. In the Shelter of a Duck’s Nesting Place: Shifting Power and Politics along the Mississippi | 31
4. A Kingdom of Water: Adaptation and Erasure in Bayou Country | 53
5. “So-Called Indians”: The Houma Quest for Education | 79
6. A Paper Genocide: The Fight for Recognition | 109
Conclusion: The Sea of Galilee | 135
Notes | 147
Bibliography | 171
Index | 185