scholarly journals Long Distance Implantation of Vernacular Architecture Traditions: The Canadians in Early Louisiana

2020 ◽  
Vol 88-89 ◽  
pp. 45-78
Author(s):  
Jay D. Edwards
Keyword(s):  
Relative Abundance ◽  
Mississippi River ◽  
18Th Century ◽  
Gulf Coast ◽  
Architectural History ◽  
Vernacular Architecture ◽  
Long Distance ◽  
Lower Mississippi River ◽  
Mississippi Gulf Coast ◽  
First Time

This study explores the architectural contributions of Canadians to Louisiana in the 18th century. One of the most revealing arenas in American architectural history concerns the origins of new vernacular traditions in locations being settled for the first time by Europeans. Between the late 15th and 18th centuries, many settlement experiments occurred along the coastlines of the Atlantic. Yet the dearth of reliable documentation from the earliest years of colonial establishment renders elusive a sound understanding of the factors which shaped these foundational architectural transformations. The result: a loss of understanding of the very essence of our American vernacular traditions. This study examines one such case for which a relative abundance of documentation survives—the Canadians in Louisiana. It traces the architectural transformations that materialized when Canadians attempted to found a new colony on the Mississippi Gulf Coast and the lower Mississippi River Valley, beginning in 1699.

Long-Distance Movements of Four Polyodon spathula (Paddlefish) from a Remote Oxbow Lake in the Lower Mississippi River Basin

2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 230-238 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ehlana G. Stell ◽  
Jan Jeffrey Hoover ◽  
Bryan A. Cage ◽  
Darrin Hardesty ◽  
Glenn R. Parsons
Keyword(s):  
River Basin ◽  
Mississippi River ◽  
Oxbow Lake ◽  
Mississippi River Basin ◽  
Long Distance ◽  
Polyodon Spathula ◽  
Lower Mississippi River

Crystallaria cincotta, a new species of darter (Teleostei: Percidae) from the Elk River of the Ohio River drainage, West Virginia

Zootaxa ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 1680 (1) ◽  
pp. 62 ◽  
Author(s):  
STUART A. WELSH ◽  
ROBERT M. WOOD
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
West Virginia ◽  
Mississippi River ◽  
Gulf Coast ◽  
Ohio River ◽  
Upper Mississippi River ◽  
Elk River ◽  
Lower Mississippi River ◽  
River Drainages ◽  
A New Species

A new species of percid, Crystallaria cincotta, is described from the Cumberland, Elk, Green, and Muskingum river drainages of the Ohio River basin, USA. It differs from populations of Crystallaria asprella of the Gulf Coast, lower Mississippi River, middle Mississippi River, upper Mississippi River, and Wabash River drainages by having a reduced number of cheek scale rows restricted to the post-orbital region, a falcate margin on the pelvic fins, a preorbital blotch distinctly separate from the anterior orbital rim, and a wide mouth gape. The Elk River population is also divergent genetically from populations of the Gulf Coast, lower Mississippi River, and upper Mississippi River drainages. Crystallaria cincotta, discovered in the Elk River of the Ohio River drainage in 1980, is a rare species with the only extant population represented by 12 individuals collected from 1980–2005 from the lower 36 km section of the Elk River, West Virginia.

scholarly journals Watershed Times for the Caddo Peoples of the Far Southeast

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy K. Perttula
Keyword(s):  
Mississippi River ◽  
18Th Century ◽  
Political Organization ◽  
Southern Plains ◽  
European Contact ◽  
History Of ◽  
Trade And Exchange ◽  
To Come ◽  
First Time ◽  
Epidemic Diseases

A.D. 1450 was a watershed year in the native history of the Caddo Indian peoples of the Far Southeast (southwest Arkansas, northwest Louisiana, eastern Oklahoma, and eastern Texas). For the first time, recognizable and relatively geographically coherent socio-political polities in several areas can be identified that arose out of the distinctive archaeological traditions of the Caddo area that first are recognizable about A.D. 900. These new Caddo polities that came into existence at ca. A.D. 1450 apparently lasted until at least A.D. 1680, if not later, but did not survive sustained European contact with the same socio-political organization intact that they started with in those watershed times. This dynamic development among Caddo peoples occurred in tandem with a more uniform intensification of maize agriculture in prime Far Southeast habitats after ca. A.D. 1300, extensive intra-areal movements of Caddo groups in combination with the abandonment of agriculturally marginal regions, possible new religious developments heralded by indirect archaeological evidence for the use of peyote and other psychotropic drugs among some East Texas Caddo peoples after ca. A.D. 1430, and widespread trade and exchange with indigenous Southern Plains and Southeastern cultures. The introduction of epidemic diseases by the early 1690s, along with slave raiding from tribes east of the Mississippi River (see Ethridge 2009), took a terrible toll on the Caddo peoples in the years to come, but the dissolution of several pre-contact Caddo sociopolitical polities, and the transformation of them into new Caddo cultural identities, did not occur until well into the 18th century, about 1730.

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