Wild Frenchmen and Frenchified IndiansBased on a sweeping range of archival, visual, and material evidence, Wild Frenchmen and Frenchified Indians examines perceptions of Indians in French colonial Louisiana and demonstrates that material cultureespecially dresswas central to the elaboration of discourses about race. At the heart of France's seventeenth century plans for colonizing New France was a formal policyFrenchification. Intended to turn Indians into Catholic subjects of the king,