if Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville had befriended the Chickawas rather than attempted to kill them off, they would have advised him that New Orleans had poor feng shui and was not the place to build.

Date:   9/1/2005 11:06:01 AM ( 19 y ago)

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IF Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville
the founder of New Orleans had befriended
the Chickasaws, rather than hunted them down,
they would have looked into the future and
advised him NOT to bulld New Orleans
where he did.but Jean-Baptiste considered these Indians
heathens, ignorant, and the enemy.

I mean, why trust your local shamanic iindigenous
"feng shui" sutainable living innovators
living in harmony with Mother Earth
when it is easier to drive them toward extinction?

What goes around, comes around
I am very sorry to say.

your eg



"The region was not originally unpopulated. When Iberville arrived at the mouth of the river in 1699, he found some local Indian tribes, among them the Bayogoula and the Mongoulacha, who helped him to survey the areas neighboring the delta, such as Pontchartain Lake. Iberville even named one of the settlements Baton Rouge for the red stick the Indians used for games and offerings. Other tribes included the Natchez and the Chickasaws.
Portrait of Marie Lassus of New Orleans (1860) Albumen print by Louis Rousseau
New Orleans Museum of Art

The first French nationals came with Iberville and Bienville; later groups were attracted or forced by John Law's enterprise, or came of their own will. Of the nearly 10,000 Germans who wanted to come to Louisiana around 1719, lured by the promises of Law's company, only 2,000 arrived; many had perished of disease and other hardships. Some of the survivors settled in what is today known as the German Coast. In 1765 a large number of Acadians (from Nova Scotia), known now as Cajun people, were exiled in Louisiana. They also spoke French but, in contrast to the Creoles, they did not settle in the city. The Cajuns settled in the bayous and swamps and used the oral tradition to maintain their language and culture."

http://www.iadb.org/EXR/cultural/catalogues/orleans/ethnicity_immi.html


Chickasaw

"In the 18th century the Chickasaw got involved in the struggles between the British and French. They took sides with the British against the French and Choctaw. In the 1830's they were removed with force to Indian Territory that is now known as Oklahoma. They joined the already present tribes of Creek, Cherokee, Choctaw and Seminole. Some Indians now live on tribal landholdings, otherwise known as reservations.

Daily Life: The Chickasaw did not tend to form villages, rather they were scattered for miles along a stream or river. Their supreme deity was associated with the sky, sun and fire. Once a year they celebrated a harvest and new-fire rite similar to the Green Corn ceremony of the Creek.

Best Known Features: The Chickasaw flag is indigo and bears a representation of the seal of the Chickasaw Nation. The gold and light purple stripes symbolize the purity and honor of the people. The warrior represents Tishomingo and all Chickasaw people. Tishomingo was the last war chief from the time period when the Chickasaw lived in the southeastern area of the United States. Tishomingo has two arrows in his hand. These stand for historical divisions of the Chickasaw, the forest and town dwellers. The four head feathers worn by Tishomingo represent the four directions on a compass. The bow and quiver stand for a warrior's honor to defend his people. The shield symbolizes the protection that warriors offer the Chickasaw."
Written by: Jennifer Segar
http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/cultural/northamerica/chickasaw.html


 "Although he was officially named the governor of Louisiana in 1732–a title that he had never held before–Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville did not begin his career in New France. Born in Montreal in 1680 he first served under the orders of his older brother, Pierre Le Moyne d’Iberville, at Newfoundland and at Hudson Bay during the War of the Grand Alliance, or War of the League of Augsburg (1688-97), then in Louisiana beginning in 1699. He led the colony on numerous occasions (1701-12, 1717-25, 1732-43) and historians have often cast him as the “Father of Louisiana.”

In 1712 when the financier Antoine Crozat took charge of the colony’s development, Bienville hoped to become governor, but was ousted in favor of Lamothe-Cadillac. Bienville returned to office in 1717 with the title of commander general, while the Louisiana monopoly had fallen to the Company of the West. He managed to impose a new site for the capital of New Orleans--not on the coast as others had suggested, but on the Mississippi. The capital became the backbone of trade and colonization. On bad terms with the administrators of the then Company of the Indies, Bienville was recalled to France–a country he hardly knew–in 1725.

Bienville had the reputation of knowing the Indians well. Mastering the lingua franca of the lower Mississippi, called mobilien, he was without doubt the only governor of a colony in New France to speak to the Indians without an interpreter. He pushed indianization so far as to tattoo himself with a serpent, which wrapped around his body. After his return in 1733 he launched a policy of fortification building and, on two instances, in 1736 and 1739-40, led expeditions against the Chickasaws, without ever achieving their defeat. He retired in 1743 and lived in Paris until his death in 1767."

http://international.loc.gov/intldl/fiahtml/fiatheme2c4.html

 

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