swANTONl IXDIAN TRIBES OF THE LOWER MISSISSIPPI VALLEY S 



GossELiN, .M. i.".vitHK A.MKDKK. Los SiUiva^i's (111 Mississipi ( KV.tS-lTOS) dapivs 

 le Correspoiidaiici' (k-s .Missioiiiiaircs ties Missions I^tratiu'rrcs ili' Qin'lxv, i, 



31-ni. 



HuTCiiiNS, Thomas. An Historical Narrative and Topoj^raiiliical Dc'scription 

 of Louisiana and West Florida. lMiilad<'lplua. 1TS4. 



I>A IIaui'i;. .Tonrnal Ilistoriciiic do rHtahlissoniont dos Fraiu.-ais :1 La Loiiisiane, 

 Nouvelie-Orit'ans, Ls.'JL 



Le Pace uu Pratz. Ilistoirc <lc La Loiusiano, ."> vols., Paris, ITHS. 



LuxEMBouRo, an anonymous nu'nioir iiiiljlisli(>d at. ontitlod " -Menioire snr La 

 Louisiano on Lo Mississipi," IT.TJ (evidently written before 1718). 



Marcry (editor). I)eeouvert»>s et Etablissenieuts des Franr.-ais dans I'ouest et 

 dans le sud de rAuierique Septentrionale (1614-1754), Paris, 1877-lSSO. 



Shea, John (;ii.mary (editor). Discovery and Exploration of the Mississippi 

 Valley, Kedfield, N. Y., IS.'-.li. 



Early Voya.ws T'p and Down the Mississippi. Albany, isGl. 



Sibley, John. Historical Sketches of the Several Indian Tribes in Louisiana 

 Sontli of the Arkansas River and Between tlie Mississippi and River 

 Grand, in a Message from tlie President of the I'nited States Communicat- 

 ing Discoveries Made in Exi)loring the Missouri, Red River, and Washita. 

 Annals of Congress, 9th Cong., 2d sess., 107(j-10s8. 



Thwaites. Rkiben (tOi.d (editor). The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents, 

 78 vols.. Cl.'veland. 1807-1!)01. 



This list contains men^ly llioso Avorks Avhich wore found of most 

 value in the present nndertaking. While the Indians of Louisiana 

 have been made the subject of numerous special articles in treatises 

 dealing with that colony or State, most of these are comi)ilations or 

 are too superficial to be of any real service. The value of the works 

 cited and the extent to which they have been drawn upon also varies 

 greatly. Of first importance among these are the documents pub- 

 lished by Pierre Margry, and the letters of missionaries printed in 

 the Jesuit Relations, by Shea, and later in part by Gosselin. Some 

 important papers are also to be found in French's Collections, and 

 English translations of many can be found nowhere else. The char- 

 acter of French's work varies greatly, however, and while some 

 documents are faithfully reproduced or translated, others, notably the 

 translation of La Harpe's Memoires Historiques, show an unpardon- 

 able slovenliness and are almost useless to the student. Perhaps the 

 glaring inconsistencies between Penicaut's Narrative as it appears in 

 French and in Margry may be due to the fact that the manuscript used 

 by the former was from the Bibliotheque du Roi and was dressed up 

 by some scribe into a form which he deemed more palatable to the 

 court. Thus, the dates have been altered a year through much 

 of the narrative, entire sections have been carried over under differ- 

 ent headings or entirely omitted, and inconsistent assertions made, 

 apparently on the authority of other writers. The most flagrant 

 example of this is the insertion of St. Cosme's death under two dis- 

 tinct years, which seems to point to an attempt to reconcile this nar- 



