Please join us for a talk be the author on the book
Winner of the French Colonial Historical Society’s Mary Alice
and Philip Boucher Book Prize and finalist for the Canadian Historical
Association’s Best Scholarly Book in Canadian History Prize.
Département
d'histoire / Department of History, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
“By foregrounding
Indigenous mission settlements of the Saint Lawrence valley, Flesh Reborn challenges conventional
histories of New France and early Canada.”
At
7pm on Wednesday, July 10th in the Thompson
Room at the North Simcoe Recreation
Centre, Midland, Ontario.
Open to public - No admission charge.
Drawing on a
range of ethnohistorical sources, Flesh
Reborn reconstructs the early history of seventeenth-century mission
settlements and of their Algonquin, Innu, Wendat, Iroquois, and Wabanaki
founders. Far from straightforward by-products of colonialist ambitions, these
communities arose out of an entanglement of armed conflict, diplomacy,
migration, subsistence patterns, religion, kinship, leadership,
community-building, and identity formation. The violence and trauma of war,
even as it tore populations apart and from their ancestral lands, brought
together a great human diversity.
