Young siblings Ralph (b. before 1798), Mary Ann (b. before 1798), Martha (b. about 1798), Henry (b. 1807), Absalom (b. 1809), James (b. 1813) were early settlers of Catahoula Parish, Louisiana. Descendants lived mostly in Louisiana and surrounding states.

The earliest record is of a Thomas Harvey and his wife, Elizabeth, who executed a deed in Charlotte County, Virginia on October 2, 1762.

The Republic of Texas has a vivid past - its ancestors ventured west to settle an uneasy land - from exploration by the Spaniards to war with the Mexican government and its declaration of independence in 1836. Read about these ancestor's stories through hundreds of biographies with photographs of most. A comprehensive index provides easy reference for genealogical research.

Thy Will Be Done is a lesson Hannah had to learn after her mothers death in September, 1969. She couldnt accept her mothers death and lost her faith in God. I know I had a struggle with God, but he wouldnt let me go. I had to learn that as I was praying, I was saying to God to Let Thy Will Be Done but what I really wanted was for my will to be done. My prayers were answered but the answer was no. This was something I had to learn and my struggle with God taught me a lesson that I will never forget. As Hannah learned to accept Gods will so evolved her talent for writing poetry and so was created Emotions in Poetry.

"Designed to provide brief information on the history, care, uses, and breeding of Louisiana Catahoula leopard dogs"--To the reader.

A genealogy and a history of the descendants of John Cotton who lived in Isle of Wight County, Virginia in the late 1600's. He married Martha Godwin. The families lived in North Carolina, Louisiana, and elsewhere.

This book is for those Louisiana slaves (and all the American slaves) whose labor was forced without regard to their humanity, even further, with unrestrained disrespect for their existence. This book is a tribute to the indigenous (originated in or native to the region) Black people of Northeast Louisiana, those folk who were reared in the rural areas, villages, and small towns; who worked on the farms and plantations; sharecropped; cleared all the land; tended all the livestock; planted and harvested all the crops; cooked for, babysat, and cleaned the homes of White folk; and endured the hardships of it all. This is a tribute to those laborers and professionals who strived for better lives for themselves and their families; the people who remained in Monroe, those who migrated to Monroe to make it a fine place to call home, and those who returned to the warmth of Monroe to live; and also, to those who left the area and moved on to other parts of the United States and world. I want to thank them all for trusting me with their stories.

In this challenging and often humorous book, Louis Owens examines issues of Indian identity and relationship to the environment as depicted in literature and film and as embodied in his own mixedblood roots in family and land. Powerful social and historical forces, he maintains, conspire to colonize literature and film by and about Native Americans into a safe "Indian Territory" that will contain and neutralize Indians. Countering this colonial "Territory" is what Owens defines as "Frontier," a dynamic, uncontainable, multi-directional space within which cultures meet and even merge. Owens offers new insights into the works of Indian writers ranging from John Rollin Ridge, Mourning Dove, and D'Arcy McNickle to N. Scott Momaday, Leslie Silko, James Welch, and Gerald Vizenor. In his analysis of Indians in film he scrutinizes distortions of Indians as victims or vanishing Americans in a series of John Wayne movies and in the politically correct but false gestures of the more recent Dances With Wolves. As Owens moves through his personal landscape in Oklahoma, Mississippi, California, and New Mexico, he questions how human beings collectively can alter their disastrous relationship with the natural world before they destroy it. He challenges all of us to articulate, through literature and other means, messages of personal and environmental — as well as cultural—survival, and to explore and share these messages by writing and reading across cultural boundaries.

Este estudio analiza un orden literario cambiante: América como unidad y diversidad, como un ente nacional y transnacional. Los escritos críticos literarios reunidos aquí ofrecen una serie de perspectivas que trazan gran parte de la geografía cultural en juego: la narrativa, la autobiografía, el teatro, etc. Se presentan también un conjunto de ensayos-reseñas que, entre diversas direcciones de enfoque, prestan atención a los cimientos previos a Colón, a una antología canónica norteamericana de poesía y a lo omitido; la narrativa latina y a los principales dramaturgos antiguos. Incluye entrevistas a creativos y académicos como Gerald Vizenor, Frank Chin, Louis Owens, John Cawelti y Rex Burns. La sección de reseñas final da una recepción-secuencia de monografías de relevante erudición multicultural así como contribuciones al emergente y amplio mural de análisis.