Jean Bernard Bossu was a French captain and adventurer who explored the region of the Mississippi River while ...

Caddo Indians enter written history in chronicles of the Hernando de Soto expedition, which describe encounter...

Casqui was a Native American chief who ruled over a province in northeastern Arkansas in the 1500s. He was the...

The Europeans named the Cherokee as one of the Five Civilized Tribes. (The other four were the Chickasaw, Choc...

Heading east, the ancestral Chickasaw crossed Arkansas looking for a new homeland at some point in prehistory....

The Choctaw are of the Western Muskogean language stock, which is also the same stock as the Chickasaw. When f...

On April 17, 1783, British-sympathizing Native Americans and British nationals carried out an attack upon the ...

When the Spanish expedition of Hernando de Soto crossed the Mississippi River on June 28, 1541 (June 18 on the...

Hernando de Soto was a Spanish explorer who led an expedition into the southern United States. He and his sold...

The region that became Arkansas was unknown to Europeans until the 1540s. Fifty years after Christopher Columb...

Fort St. Francis was erected by the French near the St. Francis River in 1738 during a military campaign again...

Nicolas Foucault was the first Christian missionary to serve among the Quapaw Indians of Arkansas. Nicolas Fou...

The French settlers’ experience in colonial Arkansas was vital to the history of the French presence in the ...

Historic Washington State Park, originally called Old Washington Historic State Park, is one of fifty-two stat...

Henri Joutel was a French soldier and explorer who served in the last expedition commanded by French explorer ...

The Koroa are one of many “small tribes” of the southeastern United States that are mentioned briefly in h...

Jean-Baptiste Bénard de La Harpe was a French officer, trader, and explorer. He was the first European explor...

In 1682, French explorer René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle journeyed down the Mississippi River in sear...

Frenchman Pierre Laclède, credited with co-founding the city of St. Louis, Missouri, died aboard his trading ...

French-Canadian brothers Pierre (1704–1751?) and Paul Mallet (1706?–1753?) participated in three expeditio...

In 1673, Father Jacques Marquette, a Jesuit missionary, and Louis Joliet (or Jolliet), a fur trader, undertook...

Pacaha was a Native American chief who lived in northeastern Arkansas during the 1500s. He is known solely fro...

The Legend of Petit Jean is a romantic Arkansas tale that purports to explain the origin of the name of Petit ...

The Quapaw are members of the Dhegiha Siouan language group, which also includes the Osage, the Omaha, the Pon...

The only Spanish expedition into present-day Arkansas began when Hernando de Soto led his party across the Mis...

Arkansas inherited a complex legacy of land grants from its time as part of Spanish Louisiana. Beginning in 17...

There were actually two men with the name of Tinhiouen, a father and son, who were hereditary chiefs, or caddi...