TY - GEN T1 - Paths to a middle ground : the diplomacy of Natchez, Boukfouka, Nogales, and San Fernando de las Barrancas, 1791-1795 T2 - UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. A1 - Weeks, Charles A., 1937- LA - English PP - Tuscaloosa PB - University of Alabama Press YR - 2005 UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_ocn657148966 AB - 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. OP - 292 CN - F349.N2 W44 2005eb SN - 9780817385224 SN - 0817385223 SN - 9780817356453 SN - 0817356452 SN - 0817312102 SN - 9780817312107 KW - Natchez Region (Miss.) : Ethnic relations. KW - Mobile Region (Ala.) : Ethnic relations. KW - Tombigbee River Region (Miss. and Ala.) : Ethnic relations. KW - Indians of North America : Government relations : 1789-1869. KW - Spaniards : Mississippi : Natchez : History : 18th century. KW - Spaniards : Louisiana : New Orleans : History : 18th century. KW - Colonial administrators : Mississippi : Natchez : History : 18th century. KW - Colonial administrators : Louisiana : New Orleans : History : 18th century. KW - Political culture : Mississippi : Natchez Region : History : 18th century : Sources. KW - Political culture : Alabama : Mobile Region : History : 18th century : Sources. KW - Peuples autochtones : États-Unis : Relations avec l'État : 1789-1869. KW - Espagnols : Mississippi : Natchez : Histoire : 18e siècle. KW - Espagnols : Louisiane : La Nouvelle-Orléans : Histoire : 18e siècle. KW - Administrateurs coloniaux : Mississippi : Natchez : Histoire : 18e siècle. KW - Administrateurs coloniaux : Louisiane : La Nouvelle-Orléans : Histoire : 18e siècle. KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE : Anthropology : Cultural. KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE : Discrimination & Race Relations. KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE : Ethnic Studies : General. KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE : Minority Studies. KW - Colonial administrators KW - Ethnic relations KW - Indians of North America : Government relations KW - Political culture KW - Spaniards KW - Alabama : Mobile Region KW - Louisiana : New Orleans KW - Mississippi : Natchez KW - Mississippi : Natchez Region KW - Diplomatie KW - Natchez, Miss. : Region KW - New Orleans, La. KW - Spanier. KW - Indianer. KW - 1700-1869 KW - History KW - Sources ER -