Franco-Catholic Communication and Indian Alliance in the Seven Years War
The last imperial war in colonial North America (1754–1763) intensified the French and British battle for American Indian souls. Mid-eighteenth-century French Jesuits established an approach to missionary linguistics that was the opposite of the English. In François Picquet’s Mohawk mission and Pier...
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Oxford University Press
2017
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| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190492564.003.0007 |
| Summary: | The last imperial war in colonial North America (1754–1763) intensified the French and British battle for American Indian souls. Mid-eighteenth-century French Jesuits established an approach to missionary linguistics that was the opposite of the English. In François Picquet’s Mohawk mission and Pierre Maillard’s Mi’kmaq mission, linguistic knowledge became a medium of authority and military control. Knowledge of indigenous words and symbols secured native allegiance to France and established an indigenous Catholicism as a lasting mark of France’s imperial presence in the New World. |
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