Research Catalog

Title

The children of Aataentsic : a history of the Huron People to 1660 / Bruce G. Trigger.

Author

Trigger, Bruce G.

Publication

Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 1976.

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Details

Description

2 v. (xxiii, 913 p.) : ill.; 26 cm.

Summary

"The Children of Aataentsic is both a full-scale ethnohistory of the Huron Indian confederacy and a far-reaching study of the causes of its collapse under the impact of the Iroquois attacks of 1649. It draws upon the archaeological context, the ethnography presented by early explorers and missionaries, and the recorded history of contact with Europeans. These sources enable the author to trace the development of the Huron people from the earliest hunting and gathering economies in southern Ontario many centuries before the arrival of the Europeans to their key role in the fur trade in eastern Canada during the first half of the seventeenth century."--Book jacket.

Subject

• Jésuites > Missions > Ontario
• Wyandot Indians > History
• Canada > History > To 1763 (New France)

Genre/Form

History

Note

• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. [857]-884.

Contents

Vol. 1. Introduction -- Aims -- Historians and Canadian Indians -- Ethnohistory and the role of anthropology -- A statement of methods and assumptions -- The Huron and their neighbours -- The Huron land and economy -- The bonds of friendship -- Enemies -- The individual and society -- The Iroquoian cultural pattern -- The birth of the Huron -- Ontario prehistory -- The Huron Confederacy -- The historic location of the Huron prehistoric trade -- Alien shadows -- Cariter and Roberval on the St. Lawrence -- Trade on the St. Lawrence 1543-1600 -- The disappearance of the St. Lawrence Iroquoians -- Survivors -- The birth of the French-Algonkian alliance -- The Huron and the early French fur trade -- Forging an alliance -- The Huron on the St. Lawrence -- Sealing the alliance -- Conclusion -- The quiet years -- Introduction -- Trade with the French -- The French in the Huron country -- Huron life -- The Huron view of the French -- vol. 2. The interregnum and the new alliance -- New France in eclipse -- The Huron and the English -- The return of the Mohawk -- Quebec: a Jesuit mssion colony -- Brûlé's murder -- The new alliance -- The defeat of the Algonkin -- The deadly harvest -- The new beginning -- The black years -- Interlude -- The new order -- The great illness -- Conclusion -- The storm -- The Huron and the French -- Trade and warfare -- War on the St. Lawrence -- War in the Huron country -- The storm within -- The Jesuit mission -- Brébeuf and the Neutral -- The Huron Church -- Conclusion -- The end of the confederacy -- The growing power of the Iroquois -- The defeat of the traditionalists -- The destruction of the Huron confederacy -- The winter at Gahoendoe -- The move to Quebec -- Betrayal and salvation -- Temporary havens -- The Huron refugees at Quebec -- The Huron of the Upper Great Lakes -- The Huron among their enemies -- Conclusions.

ISBN

0773502394

LCCN

^^^77363367^//r92

OCLC

• 3344685
• SCSB-9897118

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library