Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction by Robert Englebert and Guillaume Teasdale
“Faire la chaudière”: The Wendat Feast of Souls, 1636 - Kathryn Magee Labelle
Natives, Newcomers, and Nicotiana: Tobacco in the History of the Great Lakes Region - Christopher M. Parsons
The Terms of Encounter: Language and Contested Visions of French Colonization in the Illinois Country, 1673–1702 - Robert Michael Morrissey
“Gascon Exaggerations”: The Rise of Antoine Laumet dit de Lamothe, Sieur de Cadillac, the Foundation of Colonial Detroit, and the Origins of the Fox Wars - Richard Weyhing
“Protection” and “Unequal Alliance”: The French Conception of Sovereignty over Indians in New France - Gilles Havard
The French and the Natchez: A Failed Encounter - Arnaud Balvay
From Subjects to Citizens: Two Pierres and the French Influence on the Transformation of the Illinois Country - John Reda
Blue Beads, Vermilion, and Scalpers: The Social Economy of the 1810–1812 Astorian Overland Expedition’s French Canadian Voyageurs - Nicole St-Onge
Contributors