Huron-Wendat: The Heritage of the CircleIn this book, Georges Sioui, who is himself Wendat, redeems the original name of his people and tells their centuries-old history by describing their social ideas and philosophy and the relevance of both to contemporary life. The question he poses is a simple one: after centuries of European and then other North American contact and interpretation, isn’t it now time to return to the original sources, that is to the ideas and practices of indigenous peoples like the Wendats, as told and interpreted by indigenous people like himself? |
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Aataentsic Algonkian Amerindian ancestors animals archaeological archaeologists Attignawantans Attiwandaronks Barbeau Bear Brébeuf Brierley Canada Canadian Shield century ceremony Champlain chief Circle societies circular civilization clan confederacy corn council cultural cultural evolutionism dead death deer demographic described disease enemies epidemics Euroamerican European feast fish France French Georgian Bay give groups Heidenreich 1971 historians Hochelaga Hodenosaunee human hunter hunting Huron Huron-Wendat Indian Iroquoian Iroquois Island Jesuits Kayapó kinship Lafitau Lake Lake Ontario LAKE SIMCOE land language Lawrence Nadoueks linear Little Turtle living longhouse Middle Woodland Middleport missionaries Mohawk Montagnais moral myth nations Native nature North America Northeast noted NOTTAWASAGA BAY Onondaga oral tradition origin Owasco person phratry political population Posey prehistoric present Quebec Recollets relationships ritual sacred Sagard savages settlement Sioui social souls south-central Ontario spirit Stadacona Susquehannocks Tawiskaron territory tion Tooker trade tribes Trigger Tsestah Turtle Unnamed village Warrick Wendats woman women Wyandots