Title Natives and newcomers : Canada's "Heroic Age" reconsidered / Bruce G. Trigger

Edition 1st pbk. ed Published Montreal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, 1986

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 430 pages) : illustrations Contents Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- 1 The Indian Image in Canadian History -- History and Anthropology -- The Heroic Age -- Views of Indians in the Early Nineteenth Century -- Parkman and American Anthropology -- The Charlevoix Tradition -- Nationalist Histories -- Victorian Anthropology in Canada -- Recent Trends -- Conclusion -- 2 Before History -- Studies of Prehistory -- Early North American Archaeology -- Ethnographic Archaeology -- Chronological Archaeology -- Spatial Archaeology -- Symbolic Archaeology -- Prehistoric Hunter-Gatherers Transition to Food Production Consolidation of Village Life -- Prehistoric Florescence -- The Pattern of Prehistory -- 3 The Approach of the Europeans, 1497-1600 -- Boasian Anthropology -- The Ethnographic Present -- Early European Contact -- Jacques Cartier -- European Activities, 1540-1600 -- The Disappearance of the St Lawrence Iroquoians -- Sixteenth-Century Ontario -- Crisis and Transition -- 4 Traders and Colonizers, 1600-1632 -- Ethnohistory -- Trade and Warfare, 1600-1615 -- The Nature of Indian Trade -- European Traders French Administrators Missionaries -- Impact on Native Peoples -- The Historical Petuns and Neutrals -- Creative Symbiosis -- 5 Plagues and Preachers, 1632-1663 -- The Jesuits and the New Alliance -- The Killing Years -- Demographic Problems -- The Impact of Epidemics -- Conversions and Factionalism -- The Destruction of the Hurons -- Iroquois Supremacy -- The Saviour of New France -- Political Aftermath -- The Iroquois Missions -- Heroes and Victims -- 6 Who Founded New France? -- The Northern El Dorado -- Monopolists and Free Traders Colonizers against TradersThe Jesuit Mission Colony -- Final Observations -- Notes on Sources -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W Summary According to convential nineteenth-century wisdom, societies of European origin were naturally progressive; native societies were static. One consequence of this attitude was the almost universal separation of history and anthropology. Today, despite a growing interest in changes in Amerindian societies, this dichotomy continues to distort the investigation of Canadian history and to assign native peoples only a marginal place in it. Natives and Newcomers discredits that myth. In a spirited and critical re-examination of relations between the French and the Iroquoian-speaking inhabitants of the St Lawrence lowlands, from the incursions of Jacques Cartier through the explorations of Samuel de Champlain and the Jesuit missions into the early years of the royal regime, Natives and Newcomers argues that native people have played a significant role in shaping the development of Canada. Trigger also shows that the largely ignored French traders and their employees established relations with native people that were indispensable for founding a viable European colony on the St Lawrence. The brisk narrative of this period is complemented by a detailed survey of the stereotypes about native people that have influenced the development of Canadian history and anthropology and by candid discussions of how historical, ethnographical, and archaeological approaches can and cannot be combined to produce a more rounded and accurate understanding of the past Analysis Canada, to 1663 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes English Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 29, 2019) Subject Indians of North America -- Canada -- History Iroquoian Indians -- History Indians of North America -- First contact with other peoples -- Canada Indians -- First contact with other peoples Indians -- First contact with other peoples -- Canada Indians, Treatment of -- Canada -- History Iroquois Indians -- First contact with other peoples -- Saint Lawrence River Valley HISTORY -- Canada -- Pre-Confederation (to 1867) HISTORY -- Native American. Indians -- First contact with other peoples Indians of North America Indians of North America -- First contact with other peoples Iroquoian Indians SUBJECT Canada -- History -- To 1763 (New France) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85019310 Canada -- Race relations -- History Subject Canada Kanada Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780773561328 0773561323 0719023947 9780719023941 1282850911 9781282850910 9786612850912 6612850914

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