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Dispersed, But Not Destroyed: Leadership, Women, and Power within the Wendat Diaspora, 1600-1701

Magee, Kathryn Claire
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1306236416

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2011, Doctor of Philosophy, Ohio State University, History.
This dissertation examines the creation of a Wendat diaspora in the wake of the Iroquois conquest of 1649. Through the prisms of leadership, women, and North American systems of power, it explores moments of resistance pre-dispersal, traces the relocation process, and investigates the calculated re-settlement of Wendat refugees. It includes chapters on seventeenth-century epidemics, ritual practices, warfare, alliance-making and religious conversion. I link research on the seventeenth-century Wendats to the present by incorporating investigations into the perpetuation of the “destruction” myth in modern Canadian, American and Wendat societies, as well as an analysis of the re-instatement of the Wendat Confederacy in 1999. Overall, by going beyond the collapse of the political and geographic configurations of the pre-1649 Wendats and focusing on the persistent use of Wendat identity until the turn of the eighteenth century, I argue that although the Confederacy and Wendat Country may have disintegrated mid-century, the Wendat people, along with their culture, beliefs and diplomatic power remained intact, creating a diasporic polity within the Great Lakes region.
Dr. Margaret Newell (Advisor)
Dr. Lucy Murphy (Committee Member)
Dr. John Brooke (Committee Member)
Dr. Alan Gallay (Committee Member)
390 p.
History
Wendat; Huron; Wyandot; Diaspora; Native American; North America; Jesuits; New France; Ontario; Wendake; Iroquois; Beaver Wars; Huronia; History; Indians; Fur Trade; Feast of Souls;

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  • Magee, K. C. (2011). Dispersed, But Not Destroyed: Leadership, Women, and Power within the Wendat Diaspora, 1600-1701 [Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1306236416

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Magee, Kathryn. Dispersed, But Not Destroyed: Leadership, Women, and Power within the Wendat Diaspora, 1600-1701. 2011. Ohio State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1306236416.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Magee, Kathryn. "Dispersed, But Not Destroyed: Leadership, Women, and Power within the Wendat Diaspora, 1600-1701." Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1306236416

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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