Dispersed but not Destroyed

A History of the Seventeenth-Century Wendat People

Häftad, Engelska, 2014

385 kr

Beställningsvara. Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar. Fri frakt över 249 kr.

Beskrivning

Situated within the area stretching from Georgian Bay in the north to Lake Simcoe in the east, the Wendat Confederacy flourished for two hundred years. By the mid-seventeenth century, however, Wendat society was under attack. Disease and warfare plagued the people, culminating in a series of Iroquois assaults that led to their ultimate dispersal.Yet the Wendat did not disappear, as many historians have maintained. In Dispersed but Not Destroyed, Kathryn Magee Labelle examines the creation of a Wendat diaspora in the wake of the Iroquois attacks. In the latter half of the century, Wendat leaders continued to appear at councils, trade negotiations, and diplomatic ventures, relying on established customs of accountability and consensus. Women also continued to assert their authority during this time, guiding their communities toward paths of cultural continuity and accommodation. Turning the story of Wendat conquest on its head, this book demonstrates the resiliency of the Wendat people and writes a new chapter in North American history.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2014-01-01
Mått:152 x 229 x undefined mm
Vikt:440 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:288
Förlag:University of British Columbia Press
ISBN:9780774825566
Utmärkelser:Short-listed for Aboriginal History Prize, Canadian Historical Association 2014 (Canada)

Utforska kategorier

Mer om författaren

Kathryn Magee Labelle is an assistant professor in the History Department at the University of Saskatchewan.

Recensioner i media

… the devastating Haudenosaunee attacks in 1649 have long shaped the ways scholars have narrated and understood the past of the Wendat people … So dramatic was this dispersal that many historians and anthropologists have portrayed it as the end of Wendat history and any meaningful Wendat peoplehood. Kathryn Magee Labelle forcefully challenges, and convincingly demolishes, this "discourse of destruction" (p. 196) in her aptly-named Dispersed but Not Destroyed … A topnotch ethnohistory, Labelle's book … draws a complex yet coherent picture of the vibrant Wendat diaspora. At the same time it prompts broader questions about power, society, and narrative in the study of seventeenth-century North America.- Sami Lakomäki, University of Oulu (Histoire sociale / Social History) A nuanced and highly readable account of the Wendat people's turbulent history, which challenges the notion of the Wendat's disappearance as a cohesive community in the wake of the Iroquois attacks of the mid-seventeenth century. - Roger M. Carpenter, Department of History, University of Louisiana Monroe

Innehållsförteckning

A Brief Chronology: Selected Wendat Events and Migration, 1400-1701IntroductionPart 1: Resistance1 Disease and Diplomacy: The Loss of Leadership and Life in Wendake2 A Culture of War: Wendat War Chiefs and Nadowek Conflicts before 1649Part 2: Evacuation and Relocation3 Wendat Country: Gahoendoe Island and the Cost of Remaining Close4 Anishinaabe Neighbours: The Coalition5 The West: The Country of the People of the Sea6 The East: The Lorettans7 Iroquois Country: Wendat Autonomy at Gandougare, Kahnawake, and GanowaroharePart 3: Diaspora8 Leadership: Community Memory and Cultural Legacy9 Women: Unity, Spirituality, and Social Mobility10 Power: Sources of Strength and Survival beyond the DispersalEpilogue: Reconnecting the Modern Diaspora, 1999AppendixNotesBibliographyIndex