Reading Abenaki Traditions and European Records of Rogers’ Raid
The October 4, 1759 attack on St. Francis is recognized as an important event in American history, but most people only know the fictional version. The movie “Northwest Passage” portrays half-naked savages, living in tipis and pounding on great war drums. Town histories depict the Abenaki as violent...
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ftunivpenn:oai:repository.upenn.edu:20.500.14332/1421 2024-02-04T09:52:09+01:00 Reading Abenaki Traditions and European Records of Rogers’ Raid Bruchac, Margaret 2006-08-01 application/pdf https://repository.upenn.edu/handle/20.500.14332/1421 https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14332/1421 unknown https://repository.upenn.edu/handle/20.500.14332/1421 Posted with permission from the Vermont Folklife Center (https://www.vermontfolklifecenter.org/). 155 Department of Anthropology Papers Vermont Folklife Center published Anthropology Social and Behavioral Sciences Article 2006 ftunivpenn https://doi.org/20.500.14332/1421 2024-01-06T23:28:04Z The October 4, 1759 attack on St. Francis is recognized as an important event in American history, but most people only know the fictional version. The movie “Northwest Passage” portrays half-naked savages, living in tipis and pounding on great war drums. Town histories depict the Abenaki as violent foreign marauders, who attacked no reason, conveniently forgetting to mention the broken treaties and boundary violations of English settlers in Abenaki territory. Some historians have claimed the Abenaki were engaged in a drunken orgy the night before the raid. Those who have read Robert Rogers’ account think that more than 200 Abenaki people were killed, and that the survivors were few and far between. These fictions have twisted this event into unrecognizable shape. The truth, as preserved in Abenaki oral traditions, French records, and English documents, including the writings of Rogers’ own men, is far more complicated. Article in Journal/Newspaper abenaki Northwest passage University of Pennsylvania: ScholaryCommons@Penn Northwest Passage |
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The October 4, 1759 attack on St. Francis is recognized as an important event in American history, but most people only know the fictional version. The movie “Northwest Passage” portrays half-naked savages, living in tipis and pounding on great war drums. Town histories depict the Abenaki as violent foreign marauders, who attacked no reason, conveniently forgetting to mention the broken treaties and boundary violations of English settlers in Abenaki territory. Some historians have claimed the Abenaki were engaged in a drunken orgy the night before the raid. Those who have read Robert Rogers’ account think that more than 200 Abenaki people were killed, and that the survivors were few and far between. These fictions have twisted this event into unrecognizable shape. The truth, as preserved in Abenaki oral traditions, French records, and English documents, including the writings of Rogers’ own men, is far more complicated. |
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Reading Abenaki Traditions and European Records of Rogers’ Raid |
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155 Department of Anthropology Papers Vermont Folklife Center published |
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