Trade and Tribal Warfare on the St. Lawrence in the Sixteenth Century

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ID2741499
AuthorsBruce Graham Trigger
Year1962
Volume9
Issue3
Pages240
Publication date1962-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueEthnohistory (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0014-1801 • E-ISSN: 1527-5477
PublisherJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/480890
OpenAlexW2333642506
LanguageEN
Citations received13

The aboriginal history of the St. Lawrence Valley in the 16th century, involving as it does the disappearance of the Laurentian Iroquois visited by Jacques Cartier in 1535, has the fascination of all perplexing historical problems where even in matters of simple fact conclusive answers cannot be given because of a lack of data. Because of this, a considerable number of conflicting solutions have been proposed by historians and anthropologists. Most of these have sought to demonstrate an historical connection between the Laurentian Iroquois and one of the Iroquoian groups which existed in the 17th century: either the Hurons or one or more tribes of the Five Nations. In part they have sought to demonstrate these connections on the basis of a supposed identification of the language of the Cartier vocabularies with that of a later Iroquoian tribe. These claims were usually based on inadequate data or faulty method and today research favors granting Laurentian Iroquois status as a separate language within the Iroquoian family. Other claims, based on a variety of Indian traditions which stated that this or that tribe had once lived on the St. Lawrence and had left or been driven out, also probably mean little since similar claims were made by all the major groups who were involved in the fur trade and seem to be an attempt on the part of tribes living beyond the St

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