Description
Book SynopsisCharles Garrad's unique work resurrects the memory of the Petun and traces their route from their creation myth to their living descendants scattered from southwestern Ontario to Kansas and Oklahoma.
Trade Review"It's been a long long journey to bring this book into being, said Garrad joking that archaeological talks and archaeological books are exceedingly boring before launching into a story that began in France in the mid-1500s. It was Champlain who found a series of well-built villages belonging to an agricultural and trading people in 1616 .He named them Nation de Petun Tobacco Nation a people who had broken away from the Huron Nation and moved into the area around Craigleith to participate in the fur trade." - Sun Times, 2014, p. A03 "What he has achieved is really very extraordinary," he said. "He has published and written extensively on the Petun...This 628-page book is a distillation of that. It is a lifetime of work. It is his attempt to put what is between his two ears into a book. In archaeology it is rare for people to do that." - Erika Engel, Blue Mountains Courier Herald, 2014
Table of ContentsForeword Chapter 1 - Introduction Chapter 2 - Locating the Petun Country Chapter 3 - The Origins of the Petun Chapter 4 - French Sources Chapter 5 - The Mission of the Apostles to the Petun, 1639-1650 Chapter 6 - Using Native Artifacts to Interpret Petun Sites Chapter 7 - Using European Artifacts to Interpret Petun Sites Chapter 8 - Petun Subsistence and Economy Chapter 9 - Petun Village and Camp Sites Interpreted Chapter 10 - The Petun and their Neighbours Chapter 11 - After the Dispersal Appendix A - Summaries of Petun Village Site Faunal Reports Appendix B - Linguistic Data Appendix C - Petun Wampum Belts
