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Dispersed but not destroyed : a history of the seventeenth-century Wendat people /

"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, c...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Labelle, Kathryn Magee, 1983-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Vancouver : UBC Press, ©2013.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.