Words of the Huron Lacrosse Weesakechahk tricks the bear

Weesakechahk tricks the bear

explores the colonial aspects of education through treaty rights and the establishment of residential and day schools

Monias Fiddler

who have been overlooked in sweeping narratives of the history of the West

Strength and Struggle includes biographies and photographs of the 30 authors

Words of the Huron Lacrosse Weesakechahk tricks the bearFascinating study of seventeenth century Huron Wendat language from early Jesuit writing sources. This form of linguistic archaeology covers the Huron or Wendat as well as the Wyandot (Petun) Nations and their culture, kinship, clans, relationship to the environment, material culture, ceremonies, warfare, medicine and disease, and relationship to the French. Of particular interest is the coverage of the construction of longhouses and wooden armour,