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Book SynopsisExplores the lives of Etienne Brulé, Joseph Chihoatenhwa, Thérèse Oionhaton, and Marie Rollet Hébert as they created new religious orientations in order to survive the challenges of early seventeenth-century New France. Poirier examines how each successfully adapted their religious and cultural identities to their surroundings, enabling them to develop crucial relationships and build communities.
Trade Review“The book is an in-depth study of four persons who were emblematic in this complex, violent, and creative history of cultural contestation. It is an ambitious and engaging study of colonial documents (records of both explorers and missionaries) within which Poirierreveals the voices of historically muted Wendat peoples. She is not simply reading between the lines, but also ‘against the text,’ discovering a story that we have not heard before. This book promises to be the most important (and corrective) study of the period since Bruce Trigger’s groundbreaking The Children of Aataentsic.”—Jennifer I. M. Reid, author of
Religion and Global Culture.
