On February 10, 1763, the Treaty of Paris was signed following France's defeat by Great Britain in the Seven Years' War. See also: British West Florida and Gulf Coast campaign The settlement of Baton Rouge by Europeans began in 1721 when a military post was established by French colonists. It was reportedly a thirty-foot-high painted pole adorned with fish bones. The location of the red pole was presumably at Scott's Bluff, on what is now the campus of Southern University. See also Red Sticks for the ceremonial use of red sticks among the Muscogee. According to Pénicaut,įrom there we went five leagues higher and found very high banks called écorts in that region, and in savage called Istrouma which means red stick, as at this place there is a post painted red that the savages have sunk there to mark the land line between the two nations, namely: the land of the Bayagoulas which they were leaving and the land of another nation-thirty leagues upstream from the baton rouge-named the Oumas. Istrouma, possibly a corruption of the Choctaw iti humma "red pole" Īndré-Joseph Pénicaut, a carpenter traveling with d'Iberville, published the first full-length account of the expedition in 1723. The French name le bâton rouge ("the red pole") is the translation of a native term rendered as The explorers saw a red pole marking the boundary between the Houma and Bayagoula tribal hunting grounds. Colonial period 1699–1763: French period įrench explorer Sieur d'Iberville led an exploration party up the Mississippi River in 1699. The early Muskogean nations were the bearers of the Mississippian culture which formed around AD 800.īy the time the Spanish made their first forays inland from the shores of the Gulf of Mexico in the early 16th century, many political centers of the Mississippians were already in decline, or abandoned, the region at the time presenting as a collection of moderately-sized native chiefdoms interspersed with autonomous villages and tribal groups. Eastern Muskogean began to diversify internally in the first half of the 1st millennium AD. Proto- Muskogean divided into its daughter languages by about 1000 BC a cultural boundary between either side of Mobile Bay and the Black Warrior River begins to appear between about 1200 BC and 500 BC, the Middle "Gulf Formational Stage". Earthwork mounds were built by hunter-gatherer societies in the Middle Archaic period, from roughly the 4th millennium BC. Human habitation in the Baton Rouge area has been dated to about 8000 BC based on evidence found along the Mississippi, Comite, and Amite rivers.
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