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Pierre Fauconnier II (d.1746) was a grandson of Pierre Fauconnier and Judith Normand, and a son of Jean Fauconnier and Madeleine De la Touche, French Huguenots who had immigrated to London, England. Pierre II married Madelaine Pasquereau in 1680, and immigrated during or before 1702 to New York City, subsequently moving to Hacksensack, New Jersey. Descendants and relatives lived in New York, New Jersey, Virginia, Washington, D.C., Ohio, Michigan and elsewhere. Some des- cendants immigrated after the Revolutionary War to Ontario and elsewhere in Canada. Includes much ancestry and genealogical data in France to the early 1500s.
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Le XIXe siècle amérindien vu par des voyageurs dont les observations sont organisées en trois pôles : la construction d'un regard scientifique, les nouvelles représentations de l'espace américain (l'imaginaire des pays), les discours et les regards de voyageurs (l'industrie mexicaine vue par les voyageurs européens, Ferdinand Denis, observateur de la société brésilienne).
Indigenous Struggle at the Heart of Brazil examines the dynamic interplay between the Brazilian government and the Xavante Indians of central Brazil in the context of twentieth-century western frontier expansion and the state’s indigenous policy. Offering a window onto Brazilian developmental policy in Amazonia and the subsequent process of indigenous political mobilization, Seth Garfield bridges historical and anthropological approaches to reconsider state formation and ethnic identity in twentieth-century Brazil. Garfield explains how state officials, eager to promote capital accumulation, social harmony, and national security on the western front, sought to delimit indigenous reserves a...
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