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 ...
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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.
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Very good+ in very good jacket. Two volume set! Gray cloth boards in dust jackets, octavos, 913pp., sparsely illustrated in b&w. Books have mild toning to boards and hint of foxing to spines, bindings tight, previous owner's signatures to front endpapers of both volumes, otherwise text clean bright and unmarked. DJs have chipping and loss to spine ends and corners, toning and rubbing, now in archival mylar wraps.
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Fine in Fine jacket. Collectible Fine Hardcover Fine Dust Jacket Clean 913 pp. Second Edition Two Volumes in One Hardcover. NOT a library copy. Maps Drawings. Comprehensive study of the western Iroquois Nations the Hurin, the Neutrals and the Eries and the Seneca. The pre Iroquois Confederacy Holchelaga. See our Three Geese in Flight Book Scans of cover and Table of Contents.