The Indians of the Saint Lawrence Valley and their religion

An essay on four centuries of scholarship in French

Bibliographic Data

ID5089039
AuthorsMichel Despland (Concordia University, Montreal, QC H3G 1M8, corresponding author)
Year2003
Volume32
Issue4
Pages461-484
Publication date2003-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueStudies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0008-4298 • E-ISSN: 2042-0587
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/000842980303200405
OpenAlexW2159915296
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited14

During the century and a half from Champlain to Charlevoix a vast corpus was written in French about the Indians of the Saint Lawrence Valley. The rich material from these writings opens a discourse on native religions and serves to affirm a common nature between the two populations. However, the British conquest and subsequent developments interupted this production of material. This paper examines the attitudes towards natives and native religion that inform the earlier French material and considers the differences between them and the English inter-cultural policies and practices that followed. It brings its discussion to the 1970s, showing how, with the rise of ethno-historical studies, a new Quebec corpus is being written which attends to the interaction of the French and native populations

Ancient history · Art history · CONQUEST · Ethnology · Political science · SAINT · Scholarship · Sociology · Anthropology · Canadian Identity and History · Classics · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis · History · Indigenous Studies and Ecology · Law

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