Early French Canada, 1604 -

Early French Acadia - Names

• Mesgouez, Seigneur de la Roche• Samuel de Champlain• Pierre du Gua de Monts• Francois Pontgravé • Jean de Biencourt de Poutrincourt• Marc Lescarbot• Charles La Tour and Claude La Tour• Membertou

Names (continued)

• Marquise de Guercheville• Father Pierre Biard• Charles Biencourt• Samuel Argall

Quebec

• Champlain’s arrival at Quebec• The fortess and its population• Relations with Native people• The arrival of missionaries• Marriage• Food and provisions

The Iroquois Wars, 1609 -

Warfare in Five Nations Society

• The Iroquois Confederacy• Purposes of war in Iroquois society,

and the Iroquois “mourning war” tradition

• Post-contact economic purposes of war

• French involvement• Increasing impetuses for war

The Iroquois Wars

• Early conflicts (1641-1647)• Attacks on Huron villages (1647-

1649)• Dispersal of Huronia (1649)• Dispersal of the Petun (1650),

Neutral (1651)

Post-Contact Factors in Warfare

• Existing conflicts• European involvement in existing conflicts• Traditional understandings/purposes of

warfare• Trade• Firearms• Disease• Christianity and religious factionalism

Disease

Sample figures• Huron population in 1616 (32,000)

and 1639 (9,000)• Mohawk population in 1630 (7,740)

and 1634 (2,830)