Letter by Reverend Father Etienne de Carheil to Monsieur Louis Hector de Callieres, governor [on conditions in the Upper Lakes in 1702]
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- 1702
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Father Carheil explains -- at times in graphic detail -- how lust and greed corrupted nearly everyone connected with the fur trade at the western posts. Fur trade voyageurs, hunters, explorers and merchants have been romanticized so often that we benefit from seeing its dark side through his eyes. Carheil reveals how French colonialism affected the everyday lives of young French clerks, teenage Indian girls, hardened soldiers, and tribal elders, and asks the government to end the excesses. We have digitized here only the English translation, on the odd-numbered pages, and omitted the facing French text.
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Carheil, Etienne de, 1633-1726
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- Recollection Wisconsin
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- Wisconsin Historical Society
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The Jesuit relations and allied documents : travels and explorations of the Jesuit missionaries in New France, 1610-1791 - Publisher
- Burrows Brothers Co
- Subjects
- Native Americans
French Americans
Indians of North America Government relations
Gambling
Leisure activities
Missions
Clergy
Missionaries
Priests
Religious education
Rites and ceremonies
Race relations
Fur trade
War
Soldiers
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- English
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- Carheil, Etienne de, 1633-1726. Letter by Reverend Father Etienne de Carheil to Monsieur Louis Hector de Callieres, governor [on conditions in the Upper Lakes in 1702]. 1702. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://content.wisconsinhistory.org/cdm/ref/collection/tp/id/39400. (Accessed March 29, 2024.)
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- Carheil, Etienne de, 1633-1726, (1702) Letter by Reverend Father Etienne de Carheil to Monsieur Louis Hector de Callieres, governor [on conditions in the Upper Lakes in 1702]. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://content.wisconsinhistory.org/cdm/ref/collection/tp/id/39400
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- Carheil, Etienne de, 1633-1726. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America <http://content.wisconsinhistory.org/cdm/ref/collection/tp/id/39400>.