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Flesh reborn : the Saint Lawrence Valley mission settlements through the seventeenth century

Lozier, Jean-François, 1980- author

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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\"-- Publisher's description.

• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Subject: Indians of North America Saint Lawrence River Valley History 17th century. / Indians of North America Saint Lawrence River Valley Government relations History 17th century. / Indians of North America Missions Saint Lawrence River Valley History 17th century. / Missionary settlements Saint Lawrence River Valley History 17th century. / Saint Lawrence River Valley History 17th century. / Canada History 17th century. / Saint Lawrence River Valley History. / New France Discovery and exploration. / Canada History To 1763 (New France)
• ISBN: 9780773553453, 0773553452, 0773553444, 9780773553446

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