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The last decades of the seventeenth century were marked by persistent, bloody conflicts between the French and their Native allies on the one side and the Iroqu
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Authors: Kathryn Magee Labelle
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"Situated within the area stretching from Georgian Bay in the north to Lake Simcoe in the east (also known as Wendake), the Wendat Confederacy flourished for tw
The Great Law and the Longhouse
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Pages: 816
Authors: William Nelson Fenton
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1998 - Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press

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The Great Law, a living tradition among the conservative Iroquois, is sustained by celebrating the condolence ceremony when they mourn a dead chief and install
A History of Law in Canada, Volume One
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A History of Law in Canada is an important three-volume project. Volume One begins at a time just prior to European contact and continues to the 1860s, Volume T
Montreal
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Surrounded by water and located at the heart of a fertile plain, the Island of Montreal has been a crossroads for Indigenous peoples, European settlers, and tod