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- Title
« L'on n'a point d'ennemis plus grands que ces sauvages. ».
- Authors
BEAULIEU, ALAIN
- Abstract
Referring to the Innu with whom the French settlers at Quebec had been in contact since the beginning of the seventeenth century, Champlain noted in 1624 that « we have no greater enemies than these savages.» This statement, surprising at first glance, nevertheless reflects a very real deterioration in the relationship between these two nations. The question of conflict in French-Innu relations has attracted relatively little attention, save for the work of those approaching it from a legal perspective. The murders of several French colonists by Innu and the reactions that these events elicited at Quebec offer an ideal context for studying the divide between French legal claims and the reality of their relationship with Aboriginal peoples. What meaning should be ascribed to these outbursts of violence that punctuated French-Innu relations between the 1610s and the 1630s? How can the subsequent « normalisation » of these relations be explained and what meaning can be ascribed to this process? These questions form the foundation of this article, which re-examines the initial phase of the French-Innu alliance through the process of the creation of a relationship of colonial domination over the Aboriginal population.
- Subjects
QUEBEC (Province); CANADA; CANADIAN history to 1763; ABORIGINAL Canadians; HISTORY of race relations; NASKAPI (North American people); INDIGENOUS peoples; COLONISTS; CHAMPLAIN, Samuel de, d. 1635
- Publication
Revue d'Histoire de l'Amérique Française, 2008, Vol 61, Issue 3/4, p365
- ISSN
0035-2357
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.7202/019124ar