The Great Peace of Montreal of 1701: French-Native Diplomacy in the 17th Century

by Gilles Havard

The last decades of the seventeenth century were marked by persistent, bloody conflicts between the French and their Native allies on the one side and the Iroquois confederacy on the other. In the summer of 1701, 1,300 representatives of forty First Nations from the Maritimes to the Great Lakes and from James Bay to southern Illinois met with the French at Montreal. Elaborate, month-long ceremonies culminated in the signing of The Great Peace of Montreal,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0773522190
• ISBN13: 9780773522190
• Release Date: May 2001
• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.7"