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Flesh reborn : the Saint Lawrence Valley mission settlements through the seventeenth century / Jean-François Lozier.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Publication details: Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press 2018.Description: 1 online resource (xi, 436 pages) : illustrations, mapsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780773553972
  • 9780773553989
Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • E78 .F547 2018
  • E78
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
Contents:
Friends and Brothers: Leadership, Alliance, and Settlement at Kamiskouaouangachit and Beyond, 1637-1650 -- The Enemy's Arms: Iroquoian Lifeways, Warfare, and Wendat Migration to the Saint Lawrence Valley, 1649-1651 -- Promised Lands: Wendat Endurance in the Saint Lawrence Valley, 1651-1666 -- Flesh Born Again: New and Old Iroquois in the Mission Settlements, 1667-1680 -- Against Their Own: War between the Christian and League Iroquois, 1684-1690 -- In Their Place: Wabanaki Alliances and Migrations, 1675-1700 -- The Tree of Peace: The Escalation and Resolution of the Iroquois War, 1690-1701.
Subject: The Saint Lawrence valley, connecting the Great Lakes to the Atlantic, was a crucible of community in the seventeenth century. While the details of how this region emerged as the heartland of French colonial society have been thoroughly outlined by historians, much remains unknown or misunderstood about how it also witnessed the formation of a string of distinct Indigenous communities, several of which persist to this day. Drawing on a range of ethnohistorical sources, Flesh Reborn reconstructs the early history of seventeenth-century mission settlements and of their Algonquin, Innu, Wendat, Iroquois, and Wabanaki founders. Far from straightforward byproducts of colonialist ambitions, these communities arose out of an entanglement of armed conflict, diplomacy, migration, subsistence patterns, religion, kinship, leadership, community-building, and identity formation. The violence and trauma of war, even as it tore populations apart and from their ancestral lands, brought together a great human diversity. By foregrounding Indigenous mission settlements of the Saint Lawrence valley, Flesh Reborn challenges conventional histories of New France and early Canada. It is a comprehensive examination of the foundation of these communities and reveals the fundamental ways they, in turn, shaped the course of war and peace in the region.
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The Saint Lawrence valley, connecting the Great Lakes to the Atlantic, was a crucible of community in the seventeenth century. While the details of how this region emerged as the heartland of French colonial society have been thoroughly outlined by historians, much remains unknown or misunderstood about how it also witnessed the formation of a string of distinct Indigenous communities, several of which persist to this day. Drawing on a range of ethnohistorical sources, Flesh Reborn reconstructs the early history of seventeenth-century mission settlements and of their Algonquin, Innu, Wendat, Iroquois, and Wabanaki founders. Far from straightforward byproducts of colonialist ambitions, these communities arose out of an entanglement of armed conflict, diplomacy, migration, subsistence patterns, religion, kinship, leadership, community-building, and identity formation. The violence and trauma of war, even as it tore populations apart and from their ancestral lands, brought together a great human diversity. By foregrounding Indigenous mission settlements of the Saint Lawrence valley, Flesh Reborn challenges conventional histories of New France and early Canada. It is a comprehensive examination of the foundation of these communities and reveals the fundamental ways they, in turn, shaped the course of war and peace in the region.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Sowing Seeds: Patterns of Subsistence, Settlement, and Conflict among the Saint Lawrence Algonquians, 1600-1637 -- Friends and Brothers: Leadership, Alliance, and Settlement at Kamiskouaouangachit and Beyond, 1637-1650 -- The Enemy's Arms: Iroquoian Lifeways, Warfare, and Wendat Migration to the Saint Lawrence Valley, 1649-1651 -- Promised Lands: Wendat Endurance in the Saint Lawrence Valley, 1651-1666 -- Flesh Born Again: New and Old Iroquois in the Mission Settlements, 1667-1680 -- Against Their Own: War between the Christian and League Iroquois, 1684-1690 -- In Their Place: Wabanaki Alliances and Migrations, 1675-1700 -- The Tree of Peace: The Escalation and Resolution of the Iroquois War, 1690-1701.

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