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Book Review
Canada and the United States
Claude Gélinas. La Gestion de l'étranger: Les Atikamekw et la présence eurocanadienne en Haute-Mauricie 17601870. Sillery: Septentrion. 2000. Pp. 378. $29.95.
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Contacts between French and indigenous peoples occupy a deservedly prominent place in the historiography of seventeenth-century New France. However, relatively little work has been published on the relations between indigenous peoples and Europeans in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries for the region of the St. Lawrence Valley. Claude Gélinas's work thus makes a very useful contribution, even if the findings of this study of the Atikamekw of the Upper St. Maurice Valley cannot be extrapolated to other larger aboriginal groups that lived in closer proximity to Eurocanadians. Through a detailed ethnography of the small population of Cree-speaking Atikamekw, Gélinas examines the impact of Eurocanadian trade and missionary activity on a dispersed and isolated group in the period after the end of French rule. |
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