The Myth of the Savage and the Beginnings of French Colonialism in the AmericasA classic study of early contact between European explorers and North American natives. When the two cultures met in the fifteenth century, it meant great upheavals for the Amerindians, but strengthened the Europeans' move toward nation-states and capitalism. |
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... governor , he brought three of the Iroquois with him.104 One of these , Orecone ( whose name also appears , in the casual seventeenth - century French orthography , as Oreacona , Orcoué , or Oréouache ) , was Frontenac's inseparable ...
... governor , he brought three of the Iroquois with him.104 One of these , Orecone ( whose name also appears , in the casual seventeenth - century French orthography , as Oreacona , Orcoué , or Oréouache ) , was Frontenac's inseparable ...
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... governor of New France and proposed a monopoly in return for bringing out 100 colonists a year . De Monts was less sanguine . He had seen what had happened to Chauvin , who had not been able to honor such a commission . But de Mont's ...
... governor of New France and proposed a monopoly in return for bringing out 100 colonists a year . De Monts was less sanguine . He had seen what had happened to Chauvin , who had not been able to honor such a commission . But de Mont's ...
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Olive Patricia Dickason. lowing an Amerindian - style feast at which the governor had distributed gifts . By 1644 the Jesuits were speaking of the ease with which the missionaries were expounding the truths of the faith , " which at the ...
Olive Patricia Dickason. lowing an Amerindian - style feast at which the governor had distributed gifts . By 1644 the Jesuits were speaking of the ease with which the missionaries were expounding the truths of the faith , " which at the ...
Contents
PARTI American Discoveries and European Images | 1 |
Early Contacts of Amerindians and Frenchmen | 87 |
Amerindians in Europe | 203 |
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