"A Good Relationship, &amp; Commerce": The Native Political Economy of the Arkansas River Valley

DuVal, Kathleen

doi:10.1353/eam.2007.0051

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“…The cultural accommodation and relatively peaceful coexistence that had been practiced by the French settlers and the Quapaws of the Arkansas River valley yielded to a new American agricultural society that was less tolerant of Quapaw, Cherokee, Choctaw, and Osage neighbors. 3 Historian Morris S. Arnold explained of the Arkansas delta region: "When the American era dawned in Arkansas, it revealed a very small, mostly uneducated population of approximately four hundred Frenchmen and a Quapaw tribe so decimated by disease, alcohol, and warfare that it probably numbered no more than five hundred itself." 4 Then, as historian Jeannie Whayne explained, "Thousands of whites and Indians … moved into the territory" following the American acquisition "and the nature of the relationship between them altered dramatically."…”

Section: Travel Narratives and The Historical Geography Of Arkansasmentioning

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Mapping Travelers' Cultural and Environmental Perceptions: Thomas Nuttall and Henry Rowe Schoolcraft in Arkansas, 1818-1819

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Travel narratives communicate a wealth of geographical information about the physical and cultural landscapes of the past, but cartographic representation of travelers' perceptions is challenging. When a traveler's journey is represented as a line on a map, the depth of the traveler's geographical observations and judgments is obscured. This study employed a spatial history methodology to map the environmental and cultural perceptions evident in the 1818-1819 Arkansas travel narratives of Henry Rowe Schoolcraft (1793-1864) and Thomas Nuttall (1786-1859). The published journals of each traveler were coded to identify cultural and environmental observations. These observations were further coded as descriptive or subjective perceptions. The resulting maps and analysis contribute to a deeper understanding of the cultural and environmental perceptions of these travelers than has been previously explored by scholars. The occasional cultural invectives present in the narratives have overshadowed predominantly positive environmental perceptions. The maps and analysis reveal the spatial patterns evident in these travelers' perceptions and suggest a better sense of the places experienced rather than merely the spaces traversed by these travelers.

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Section: Travel Narratives and The Historical Geography Of Arkansasmentioning

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Mapping Travelers' Cultural and Environmental Perceptions: Thomas Nuttall and Henry Rowe Schoolcraft in Arkansas, 1818-1819

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"A Good Relationship, & Commerce": The Native Political Economy of the Arkansas River Valley

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Mapping Travelers' Cultural and Environmental Perceptions: Thomas Nuttall and Henry Rowe Schoolcraft in Arkansas, 1818-1819

Mapping Travelers' Cultural and Environmental Perceptions: Thomas Nuttall and Henry Rowe Schoolcraft in Arkansas, 1818-1819

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