{"product_id":"dispersed-but-not-destroyed-9780774825566","title":"Dispersed but Not Destroyed","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThrough the prisms of leadership, women, and power, this book traces the Wendat diaspora beyond a discourse of destruction and into a new world of rejuvenation and hope.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e… the devastating Haudenosaunee attacks in 1649 have long shaped the ways scholars have narrated and understood the past of the Wendat people … So dramatic was this dispersal that many historians and anthropologists have portrayed it as the end of Wendat history and any meaningful Wendat peoplehood. Kathryn Magee Labelle forcefully challenges, and convincingly demolishes, this “discourse of destruction” (p. 196) in her aptly-named \u003cem\u003eDispersed but Not Destroyed \u003c\/em\u003e… A topnotch ethnohistory, Labelle’s book … draws a complex yet coherent picture of the vibrant Wendat diaspora. At the same time it prompts broader questions about power, society, and narrative in the study of seventeenth-century North America.\u003c\/p\u003e -- Sami Lakomäki, University of Oulu * Histoire sociale \/ Social History *\u003cbr\u003eA nuanced and highly readable account of the Wendat people’s turbulent history, which challenges the notion of the Wendat’s disappearance as a cohesive community in the wake of the Iroquois attacks of the mid-seventeenth century. -- Roger M. Carpenter, Department of History, University of Louisiana Monroe\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eA Brief Chronology: Selected Wendat Events and Migration, 1400-1701\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart 1: Resistance\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1 Disease and Diplomacy: The Loss of Leadership and Life in Wendake\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2 A Culture of War: Wendat War Chiefs and Nadowek Conflicts before 1649\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart 2: Evacuation and Relocation\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3 Wendat Country: Gahoendoe Island and the Cost of Remaining Close\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4 Anishinaabe Neighbours: The Coalition\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5 The West: The Country of the People of the Sea\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e6 The East: The Lorettans\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e7 Iroquois Country: Wendat Autonomy at Gandougare, Kahnawake, and Ganowarohare\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart 3: Diaspora\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e8 Leadership: Community Memory and Cultural Legacy\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e9 Women: Unity, Spirituality, and Social Mobility\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e10 Power: Sources of Strength and Survival beyond the Dispersal\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEpilogue: Reconnecting the Modern Diaspora, 1999\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAppendix\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNotes\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBibliography\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of British Columbia Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49404928328023,"sku":"9780774825566","price":25.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780774825566.jpg?v=1730488084","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/dispersed-but-not-destroyed-9780774825566","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}