Talk:French people in Nebraska

Comments on scope
Excellent editing on this, as usual. Your addition of "Canadian" is apropos, but presents a special conundrum: If all the references herein are of French Canadians, then shouldn't the article be named "French Canadians in Nebraska"? Several of these people were from Canada before countryhood; were others actually from France? It would be a more inclusive article if it was called "Canadians in Nebraska", and I've found some interesting references (one says there were 20,000 Canadians in NE in 1886). Should that be its title? Your thoughts are greatly appreciated... • Freechild talk 18:31, 7 December 2011 (UTC)


 * Thanks for your comment. All of them weren't French Canadian - for instance, some major French fur traders, the capitalists, were Creoles from New Orleans, and, as you said, others like Barada came directly from France. I added Canadian while thinking of the French fur trappers from Canada who worked their way down into the American West - the boundaries didn't mean much to them. They were interesting because of the development of Métis culture. I don't know enough about Nebraska to know if it would be worthwhile to point out other Canadians there - the British Canadians, unless fur trappers, likely were more part of the European-American culture than the French frontier guys - who by the 19th c. were often Métis of French background.  It may be trying to define it too narrowly, but the French definitely had their own relations with the Native Americans before many Yankees got to St. Louis and Nebraska.  They had also been settled in areas such as Illinois and Indiana when they were part of La Louisiane (those people came down from Canada, and they were the ones to settle St. Louis (and make a fur trading empire there) after the British took over east of the Mississippi, and later when US was successful in its revolution.  They didn't want to live under Yankee Protestant rule.Parkwells (talk) 19:14, 7 December 2011 (UTC)

Chadron, Nebraska
The article on the town says it is named after the trapper Louis Chartran. No cite for that either - where did your info come from? Parkwells (talk) 15:53, 12 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Added the Chamber of Commerce cite. Either name certainly sounds plausible; someone of French descent.Parkwells (talk) 16:30, 12 December 2011 (UTC)

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