Dispersed but not destroyed : a history of the seventeenth-century Wendat people / Kathryn Magee Labelle.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Vancouver : UBC Press, (c)2013.Description: 1 online resource (xi, 273 pages) : illustrations, mapContent type:
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Contents:
Part 2: Evacuation and Relocation. Wendat Country: Gahoendoe Island and the Cost of Remaining Close ; Anishinaabe Neighbours: The Coalition ; The West: The Country of the People of the Sea ; The East: The Lorettans ; Iroquois Country: Wendat Autonomy at Gandougare, Kahnawake, and Ganowarohare. -- Part 3: Diaspora. Leadership: Community Memory and Cultural Legacy ; Women: Unity, Spirituality, and Social Mobility ; Power: Sources of Strength and Survival beyond the Dispersal ; Epilogue: Reconnecting the Modern Diaspora, 1999.
Subject: "Situated within the area stretching from Georgian Bay in the north to Lake Simcoe in the east (also known as Wendake), the Wendat Confederacy flourished for two hundred years. By the mid-seventeenth century, however, Wendat society was under attack. Disease and warfare plagued the community, culminating in a series of Iroquois assaults that led to the dispersal of the Wendat people in 1649. Yet the Wendat did not disappear, as many historians have maintained. In Dispersed but Not Destroyed, Kathryn Magee Labelle examines the creation of a Wendat diaspora in the wake of the Iroquois attacks. By focusing the historical lens on the dispersal and its aftermath, she extends the seventeenth-century Wendat narrative. In the latter half of the century, Wendat leaders continued to appear at councils, trade negotiations, and diplomatic ventures --
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Includes bibliographies and index.

Part 1: Resistance. Disease and Diplomacy: The Loss of Leadership and Life in Wendake ; A Culture of War: Wendat War Chiefs and Nadowek Conflicts before 1649. -- Part 2: Evacuation and Relocation. Wendat Country: Gahoendoe Island and the Cost of Remaining Close ; Anishinaabe Neighbours: The Coalition ; The West: The Country of the People of the Sea ; The East: The Lorettans ; Iroquois Country: Wendat Autonomy at Gandougare, Kahnawake, and Ganowarohare. -- Part 3: Diaspora. Leadership: Community Memory and Cultural Legacy ; Women: Unity, Spirituality, and Social Mobility ; Power: Sources of Strength and Survival beyond the Dispersal ; Epilogue: Reconnecting the Modern Diaspora, 1999.

"Situated within the area stretching from Georgian Bay in the north to Lake Simcoe in the east (also known as Wendake), the Wendat Confederacy flourished for two hundred years. By the mid-seventeenth century, however, Wendat society was under attack. Disease and warfare plagued the community, culminating in a series of Iroquois assaults that led to the dispersal of the Wendat people in 1649. Yet the Wendat did not disappear, as many historians have maintained. In Dispersed but Not Destroyed, Kathryn Magee Labelle examines the creation of a Wendat diaspora in the wake of the Iroquois attacks. By focusing the historical lens on the dispersal and its aftermath, she extends the seventeenth-century Wendat narrative. In the latter half of the century, Wendat leaders continued to appear at councils, trade negotiations, and diplomatic ventures --

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