Dispersed but not Destroyed

Kathryn Magee Labelle is an assistant professor in the History Department at the University of Saskatchewan.

• A Brief Chronology: Selected Wendat Events and Migration, 1400-1701IntroductionPart 1: Resistance1 Disease and Diplomacy: The Loss of Leadership and Life in Wendake2 A Culture of War: Wendat War Chiefs and Nadowek Conflicts before 1649Part 2: Evacuation and Relocation3 Wendat Country: Gahoendoe Island and the Cost of Remaining Close4 Anishinaabe Neighbours: The Coalition5 The West: The Country of the People of the Sea6 The East: The Lorettans7 Iroquois Country: Wendat Autonomy at Gandougare, Kahnawake, and GanowaroharePart 3: Diaspora8 Leadership: Community Memory and Cultural Legacy9 Women: Unity, Spirituality, and Social Mobility10 Power: Sources of Strength and Survival beyond the DispersalEpilogue: Reconnecting the Modern Diaspora, 1999AppendixNotesBibliographyIndex

… the devastating Haudenosaunee attacks in 1649 have long shaped the ways scholars have narrated and understood the past of the Wendat people … So dramatic was this dispersal that many historians and anthropologists have portrayed it as the end of Wendat history and any meaningful Wendat peoplehood. Kathryn Magee Labelle forcefully challenges, and convincingly demolishes, this "discourse of destruction" (p. 196) in her aptly-named Dispersed but Not Destroyed … A topnotch ethnohistory, Labelle's book … draws a complex yet coherent picture of the vibrant Wendat diaspora. At the same time it prompts broader questions about power, society, and narrative in the study of seventeenth-century North America.- Sami Lakomäki, University of Oulu (Histoire sociale / Social History) A nuanced and highly readable account of the Wendat people's turbulent history, which challenges the notion of the Wendat's disappearance as a cohesive community in the wake of the Iroquois attacks of the mid-seventeenth century. - Roger M. Carpenter, Department of History, University of Louisiana Monroe