The St 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 emphasizing Indigenous mission settlements of the St 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.--$cProvided by publisher.
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- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 373-416) and index
- Control Number Identifier
- CaOOCEL
- Date published
- 2018.
- Description conventions
- rda
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 971.4004/97
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 23
- Distributor
- Canadian Electronic Library (Firm),
- General Note
- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- Geographic Area Code
- n-cn---
- ISBN
- 9780773553972 9780773553446
- LCCN
- E78.Q3
- LCCN Item number
- L69 2018eb
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- CaBNVSL
- Original cataloging agency
- CaOONL
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (xi, 436 pages)
- Published in
- Ottawa, Ontario
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- CaOOCEL
- Rights
- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
- System Control Number
- (CaBNVSL)kck00239227 (OCoLC)1057019149 (CaOOCEL)454269
- System Details Note
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Transcribing agency
- CaOONL
Table of Contents
- Cover 1
- FLESH REBORN 2
- Title 4
- Copyright 5
- Contents 6
- Figures 8
- Acknowledgments 10
- Introduction 16
- 1 Sowing Seeds: Patterns of Subsistence, Settlement, and Conflict among the Saint Lawrence Algonquians, 1600–1637 36
- 2 Friends and Brothers: Leadership, Alliance, and Settlement at Kamiskouaouangachit and Beyond, 1637–1650 66
- 3 The Enemy’s Arms: Iroquoian Lifeways, Warfare, and Wendat Migration to the Saint Lawrence Valley, 1649–1651 99
- 4 Promised Lands: Wendat Endurance in the Saint Lawrence Valley, 1651–1666 132
- 5 Flesh Born Again: New and Old Iroquois in the Mission Settlements, 1667–1680 166
- 6 Against Their Own: War between the Christian and League Iroquois, 1684–1690 206
- 7 In Their Place: Wabanaki Alliances and Migrations, 1675–1700 235
- 8 The Tree of Peace: The Escalation and Resolution of the Iroquois War, 1690–1701 271
- Conclusion 303
- Notes 318
- Bibliography 386
- Index 430
