Huron-Wendat Feast of the Dead Indian-European Encounters in Early North America

Name: Huron-Wendat Feast of the Dead Indian-European Encounters in Early North America
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ISBN: 9780801898556

ISBN-10: 0801898552

ISBN-13: 9780801898556

Edition: 2011

Authors: Erik R. Seeman

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"Two thousand Wendat (Huron) Indians stood on the edge of an enormous burial pit... they held in their arms the bones of roughly seven hundred deceased friends and family members. The Wendats had lovingly scraped and cleaned the bones of the corpses that had decomposed on the scaffolds. They awaited only the signal from the master of the ritual to place the bones in the pit. This was the great Feast of the Dead."Witnesses to these Wendat burial rituals were European colonists, French Jesuit missionaries in particular. Rather than being horrified by these unfamiliar native practices, Europeans recognized the parallels between them and their own understanding of death and human remains. Both…

Book details

List price: $25.00
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication date: 3/1/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 176
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English



Prologue: Encounters with Bones and Death



The Origins of Wendake



Catholicism and Colonization



First Encounters



The Feast of the Dead



Epidemic Tensions



Conversion and Conflict



Destruction


Epilogue: Bones of Contention, Bones of Consolation


Acknowledgments


Notes


Suggested Further Reading


Index