Your Fyre Shall Burn No More: Iroquois Policy Toward New France and Its Native Allies to 1701

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U of Nebraska Press, 2000 M01 1 - 377 páginas
Why were the Iroquois unrelentingly hostile toward the French colonists and their Native allies? The longstanding "Beaver War" interpretation of seventeenth-century Iroquois-French hostilities holds that the Iroquois? motives were primarily economic, aimed at controlling the profitable fur trade. Josä Ant¢nio Brand?o argues persuasively against this view. Drawing from the original French and English sources, Brand?o has compiled a vast array of quantitative data about Iroquois raids and mortality rates. He offers a penetrating examination of seventeenth-century Iroquoian attitudes toward foreign policy and warfare, contending that the Iroquois fought New France not primarily to secure their position in a new market economy but for reasons that traditionally fueled Native warfare: to replenish their populations, safeguard hunting territories, protect their homes, gain honor, and seek revenge.

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But one people
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CHAPTER SEVEN The Failure of Peace
92
CHAPTER EIGHT
105
CHAPTER NINE
117
A 2
123
Disease among the Iroquois to 1701
151
I
160
APPENDIX E Iroquois Population Losses to 1701 279
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The Human Toll 287
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Population Losses to the Iroquois to 1701 288
8
F 2
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Josä Ant¢nio Brand?o, coauthor of My Country, Our History, is an assistant professor of American Indian history at Western Michigan University.

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