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- Title
Revenge Against the Idol: Competing Magical Systems on the Detroit River, 1670.
- Authors
Walsh, Martin W.
- Abstract
The article presents a story involving the first White men, the Sulpician priests Dollier and Galinée, to navigate the Detroit River towards the Great Lakes. During the course of the expedition the men destroyed an "idol" near Belle Isle within the Seneca Nation. It outlines how the idol's destruction was a "magical revenge" for an earlier storm on Point Pelee, in which the Catholic missionaries had lost their own "magic," the expedition's altar and other implements to celebrate Mass.
- Subjects
DETROIT River (Mich. &; Ont.); GREAT Lakes (North America); WHITE men; SULPICIANS; PRIESTS; CATHOLIC missionaries; MICHIGAN state history -- To 1837
- Publication
Michigan Historical Review, 2017, Vol 43, Issue 2, p55
- ISSN
0890-1686
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5342/michhistrevi.43.2.0055