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Champlain's Quebec Built on Wendat Power Part 1

· 39 min · Episode 14 · Explicit

Episode Champlain's Quebec Built on Wendat Power Part 1

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Champlain steps dramatically into a complex world of ancient kinship networks, complex diplomacy, and a long simmering war when he founds the city of Quebec in 1608. He finally meets the powerful Wendat people and assists them and their allies in a famous battle against the Haundenosaunee in the heart of Mohawk territory.

Sources:

Champlain's Dream by David Hackett Fischer

The Making of Canada: An Epic History in Twenty Extraordinary Lives by Greg Koabel

The Children of Aateantsic: A History of the Huron People to 1660 by Bruce Trigger

Natives and Newcomers: Canada's "Heroic Age" Reconsidered by Bruce Trigger

Journal Article:

Carpenter, Roger. “Making War More Lethal: Iroquois vs. Huron in the Great Lakes Region, 1609 to 1650.” Michigan Historical Review 27, no. 2 (Fall 2001): 33–51. DOI: 10.2307/20173927

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