Show Notes
Between when Cartier and Champlain arrived in North America, the St. Lawrence Iroquois ‘disappeared’. Where did they go and why did they go? Maybe we should ask the Basques.
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
Gates St-Pierre, Christian. (2016). Iroquoians in the St. Lawrence River Valley before European Contact. Ontario Archaeology. 96. 47-64.
“When and Where Did the St. Lawrence Iroquoians and the North Shore of Lake Ontario Iroquoians Go and Why? The Huron-Wendat Perspective by Louis Lesage and Ronald F. Williamson.” Ontario Archaeology, 2020.
Steckley, John (2016). "St. Lawrence Iroquoians among the Wendat: Linguistic Evidence" (PDF). Ontario Archaeology.
Warrick, G., & Lesage, L. (2016). The Huron-Wendat and the St. Lawrence Iroquoians: New Findings of a Close Relationship. Ontario Archaeology, 96, 134-144.
Loewen, Brad. 2023. Sea Change: Indigenous Navigation and Relations with Basques around the Gulf of Saint Lawrence, c.1500-1700. In Before Canada: Northern North America in a Connected World, edited by Allan Greer, p. 109-153. Queens-McGill University Press, Kingston, Montréal.
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