“Frères et Enfants du même Père”: The French Illusion of Empire West of the Great Lakes, 1731–1743
In the eighteenth-century, France’s metropolitan authorities and colonial officials tasked the French western explorer Pierre de La Vérendrye to integrate the Indigenous peoples of the Petit Nord – Cree, Assiniboine, Monsoni, Anishinaabeg, and Dakota – into the network of French-mediated alliances e...
| Published in: | Early American Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal |
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| Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
| Language: | English |
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2016
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| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/eam.2016.0005 |