This
fictional history shows how people worlds apart are hurled into the Mississippi Valley to
a New World ruled by water and climate and by overseas power. Their daily lives and
passions pitch men and women, French, Canadian, African and Indian, into the storm that is
Louisiana as cultures clash to change all their lives. Both amiable and disreputable
characters inhabit the early French colony.
Innocent settlers and natives are caught in the military
and political net of self-motivated superiors who justify their actions as they lust for
power and wealth. Men and women of varying
backgrounds, cultures, traditions, and races react to the New World and to each other.
Their daily
lives are interwoven in a tale as real, as brutal, as it is enchanting and poignant.
Nankowetco explores the life of the Natchez Indian Lepage Du Pratz. French peers called him Lepage, and natives
addressed him as Nankowetco (“The Man Who Cares”). Du Pratz sympathized with the native resistance to
French Control during 1716-1734, refusing to become enslaved by the French. The French in turn were determined to prevail
against the Indians to the point of annihilation. Not
only an Indian hero, Du Pratz was an enlightened man, a scientist and observer.
Mary
Louise Christovich and Roulhac
Toledano began writing together when they curated exhibitions and designed and wrote
catalogues for the Louisiana State Museum where Christovich was developing The Friends
of the Cabildo. They conceived, then edited and wrote together the first half dozen
books of the influential and acclaimed series New Orleans Architecture. Mary Louise Christovich is presently spotlighted
as president of the Kemper and Leila Williams Foundation in New Orleans, spearheading a
development program for The Historic New Orleans Collection and the Williams Research
Center. Roulhac Toledano is working in
Washington with Warren Robbins, founder of The National Museum of African Art, on his
epistolary biography. She writes
environmental and academic travel pieces and she lectures throughout the country on
preservation of port cities of the South while continuing her work renovating and
restoring historic buildings.
ISBN 1-889431-90-7
2001
$49.95
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