Natives and Newcomers: Canada's "Heroic Age" Reconsidered 9780773561328
According to convential nineteenth-century wisdom, societies of European origin were naturally progressive; native socie
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Table of 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 Traders
The Jesuit Mission Colony
Final Observations
Notes on Sources
References
Index
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