فرزندان آتاانتسیک: تاریخ مردم هورون تا ۱۶۶۰

The Children of Aataentsic is both a full-scale ethnohistory of the Huron Indian confederacy and a far-reaching study of the causes of its collapse under the impact of the Iroquois attacks of 1649. Drawing upon the archaeological context, the ethnography presented by early explorers and missionaries, and the recorded history of contact with Europeans, Bruce Trigger traces the development of the Huron people from the earliest hunting and gathering economies in southern Ontario, many centuries before the arrival of the Europeans, to their key role in the fur trade in eastern Canada during the first half of the seventeenth century. Contents Illustrations List of Maps Preface to the 1987 Reprinting Preface to the First Edition CHAPTER 1 Introduction Aims Historians and Canadian Indians Ethnohistory and the Role of Anthropology A Statement of Methods and Assumptions CHAPTER 2 The Huron and Their Neighbours The Huron Land and Economy The Bonds of Friendship Enemies The Individual and Society The Iroquoian Cultural Pattern CHAPTER 3 The Birth of the Huron Ontario Prehistory The Huron Confederacy The Historic Location of the Huron Prehistoric Trade CHAPTER 4 Alien Shadows Cartier and Roberval on the St. Lawrence Trade on the St. Lawrence 1543-1600 The Disappearance of the St. Lawrence Iroquoians Survivors The Birth of the French-Algonkian Alliance The Huron and the Early French Fur Trade CHAPTER 5 Forging an Alliance The Huron on the St. Lawrence Sealing the Alliance Conclusion CHAPTER 6 The Quiet Years Introduction Trade with the French The French in the Huron Country Huron Life The Huron View of the French Notes Chapters 1-6 CHAPTER 7 The Interregnum and the New Alliance New France in Eclipse The Huron and the English The Return of the Mohawk Quebec: A Jesuit Mission Colony Brûlé's Murder The New Alliance The Defeat of the Algonkin CHAPTER 8 The Deadly Harvest The New Beginning The Black Years Interlude The New Order The Great Illness Conclusion CHAPTER 9 The Storm The Huron and the French Trade and Warfare War on the St. Lawrence War in the Huron Country CHAPTER 10 The Storm Within The Jesuit Mission Brébeuf and the Neutral The Huron Church Conclusion CHAPTER 11 The End of the Confederacy The Growing Power of the Iroquois The Defeat of the Traditionalists The Destruction of the Huron Confederacy The Winter at Gahoendoe The Move to Quebec CHAPTER 12 Betrayal and Salvation Temporary Havens The Huron Refugees at Quebec The Huron of the Upper Great Lakes The Huron among Their Enemies CHAPTER 13 Conclusions Notes Chapters 7-13 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 Y Trigger's work integrates insights from archaeology, history, ethnology, linguistics, and geography. This wide knowledge allows him to show that, far from being a static prehistoric society quickly torn apart by European contact and the fur trade, almost every facet of Iroquoian culture had undergone significant change in the centuries preceding European contact. He argues convincingly that the European impact upon native cultures cannot be correctly assessed unless the nature and extent of precontact change is understood. His study not only stands Euro-American stereotypes and fictions on their heads, but forcefully and consistently interprets European and Indian actions, thoughts, and motives from the perspective of the Huron culture. The Children of Aataentsic revises widely accepted interpretations of Indian behaviour and challenges cherished myths about the actions of some celebrated Europeans during the "heroic age" of Canadian history. In a new preface, Trigger describes and evaluates contemporary controversies over the ethnohistory of eastern Canada.