6.10 d. Code Noir
The Code Noir provided rules for how colonists treated enslaved people as well as how people of European and African ancestry interacted in French colonial Louisiana.
The Code Noir provided rules for how colonists treated enslaved people as well as how people of European and African ancestry interacted in French colonial Louisiana.
The 1724 Code Noir of Louisiana was a means to control the behaviors of Africans, Native Americans, and free people of color.
The Natchez are an American Indian group that lived along the Lower Mississippi River during the rise of European colonialism.
Both French and British colonists sought alliances with the Natchez Indians, an American Indian group with settlements along the Lower Mississippi River.
The Natchez massacre of 1729 was the culmination of failed French colonial diplomacy with the Natchez Indians.
When forced by a French commander to leave their village, Natchez men responded by attacking the French settlement of Fort Rosalie.
One of Louisiana's pre-contact indigenous groups
The Tunica-Biloxi Tribe is one of only four American Indian groups in Louisiana recognized by the federal government.
The Tunica people, skilled traders and entrepreneurs who engaged with French colonists in the eighteenth century, merged with several other historical Louisiana tribes in the twentieth century.
The Tunica-Biloxi Tribe is one of only four American Indian groups in Louisiana recognized by the federal government.
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