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This major contribution to contact period studies points to the Lasley Vore site in modern Oklahoma as the most likely first meeting place of Plains Indians and Europeans more than 300 years ago. In 1718, Jean-Baptiste Benard, Sieur de la Harpe, departed St. Malo in Brittany for the New World. La Harpe, a member of the French bourgeoisie, arrived at Dauphin Island on the Gulf coast to take up the entrepreneurial concession provided by the director of the French colony, Jean Baptiste Lemoyne de Bienville. La Harpe's charge was to open a trading post on the Red River just above a Caddoan village

Indians of North America --- Frontier and pioneer life --- Acculturation --- Wichita Indians --- Tawakoni Indians --- Culture contact --- Development education --- Civilization --- Culture --- Ethnology --- Assimilation (Sociology) --- Cultural fusion --- First contact of aboriginal peoples with Westerners --- Antiquities. --- History --- First contact with Europeans. --- Benard de La Harpe, Jean Baptiste, --- De La Harpe, Jean Baptiste Bénard, --- Harpe, Jean Baptiste Bénard de La, --- La Harpe, Jean Baptiste Bénard de, --- Relations with Indians. --- Travel --- Oklahoma --- Oklahoma Territory --- O.T. (Oklahoma Territory) --- OT (Oklahoma Territory) --- Ekelahema --- State of Oklahoma --- Sooner State --- Ogalahoma --- Oklahumma --- US-OK --- OK --- Okla. --- Indian Territory --- Ethnic relations. --- Discovery and exploration --- French. --- Bénard de La Harpe, Jean Baptiste, --- Territory of Oklahoma --- Culture contact (Acculturation) --- First contact (Anthropology) --- First contact with Europeans --- First contact with other peoples.