Marquette-Joliet Expedition

Jacques Marquette, addressing the Quapaw Indians in Arkansas in June 1673, while fellow explorer Louis Joliet looks on; taken from John Hugh Reynolds’s Makers of Arkansas History.

White man in robes holding a cross talking to a group of Native Americans

Courtesy of Special Collections, University of Arkansas Libraries, Fayetteville

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