Captivity Among the Oneidas in 1690-91, of Father Pierre Milet of the Society of Jesus (Classic Reprint)

Captivity Among the Oneidas in 1690-91, of Father Pierre Milet of the Society of Jesus (Classic Reprint)
Author: Pierre Milet
Publisher:
Total Pages: 78
Release: 2015-07-20
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781331889489


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Excerpt from Captivity Among the Oneidas in 1690-91, of Father Pierre Milet of the Society of Jesus Father Milet, like his confreres, the fathers Jogues, Bressani and Poncet was taken captive by the Iroquois and conducted to the villages of this celebrated nation. His confreres, who were kept in captivity in the territory of the Agnieronons, had received from the Dutch, then in possession of the Hudson River, only kindness and generous treatment, while Father Milet, less fortunate, had been taken at a time when England and France were struggling against each other in an obstinate war, a war which had cast a gloomy presage upon the hostilities between the colonies of the two powers. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Captivity Among the Oneidas in 1690-91 of Father Pierre Milet of the Society of Jesus

Captivity Among the Oneidas in 1690-91 of Father Pierre Milet of the Society of Jesus
Author: Pierre Milet
Publisher: Legare Street Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2023-07-18
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ISBN: 9781022155381


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A firsthand account of the captivity and eventual escape of a French Jesuit missionary during the colonial conflicts between France and England in North America. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Captivity of Father Milet

Captivity of Father Milet
Author: Pierre Millet
Publisher: Dissertations-G
Total Pages: 240
Release: 1978
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:


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The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents

The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents
Author: Jesuits
Publisher:
Total Pages: 320
Release: 1900
Genre: Canada
ISBN:


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Establishment of Jesuit missions: Abenaki ; Quebec ; Montreal ; Huron ; Iroquois ; Ottawa ; and Lousiana.

Wehman's Book on the Scalping Knife

Wehman's Book on the Scalping Knife
Author: Emeline Lucinda Fuller
Publisher:
Total Pages: 240
Release: 1888
Genre: Comanche Indians
ISBN:


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Americans Recaptured

Americans Recaptured
Author: Molly K. Varley
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2014-10-22
Genre: History
ISBN: 0806147547


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It was on the frontier, where “civilized” men and women confronted the “wilderness,” that Europeans first became Americans—or so authorities from Frederick Jackson Turner to Theodore Roosevelt claimed. But as the frontier disappeared, Americans believed they needed a new mechanism for fixing their collective identity; and they found it, historian Molly K. Varley suggests, in tales of white Americans held captive by Indians. For Americans in the Progressive Era (1890–1916) these stories of Indian captivity seemed to prove that the violence of national expansion had been justified, that citizens’ individual suffering had been heroic, and that settlers’ contact with Indians and wilderness still characterized the nation’s “soul.” Furthermore, in the act of memorializing white Indian captives—through statues, parks, and reissued narratives—small towns found a way of inscribing themselves into the national story. By drawing out the connections between actual captivity, captivity narratives, and the memorializing of white captives, Varley shows how Indian captivity became a means for Progressive Era Americans to look forward by looking back. Local boosters and cultural commentators used Indian captivity to define “Americanism” and to renew those frontier qualities deemed vital to the survival of the nation in the post-frontier world, such as individualism, bravery, ingenuity, enthusiasm, “manliness,” and patriotism. In Varley’s analysis of the Progressive Era mentality, contact between white captives and Indians represented a stage in the evolution of a new American people and affirmed the contemporary notion of America as a melting pot. Revealing how the recitation and interpretation of these captivity narratives changed over time—with shifting emphasis on brutality, gender, and ethnographic and historical accuracy—Americans Recaptured shows that tales of Indian captivity were no more fixed than American identity, but were consistently used to give that identity its own useful, ever-evolving shape.