Table of Contents

A Brief Chronology: Selected Wendat Events and Migration, 1400-1701

Introduction

Part 1: Resistance

1 Disease and Diplomacy: The Loss of Leadership and Life in Wendake

2 A Culture of War: Wendat War Chiefs and Nadowek Conflicts before 1649

Part 2: Evacuation and Relocation

3 Wendat Country: Gahoendoe Island and the Cost of Remaining Close

4 Anishinaabe Neighbours: The Coalition

5 The West: The Country of the People of the Sea

6 The East: The Lorettans

7 Iroquois Country: Wendat Autonomy at Gandougare, Kahnawake, and Ganowarohare

Part 3: Diaspora

8 Leadership: Community Memory and Cultural Legacy

9 Women: Unity, Spirituality, and Social Mobility

10 Power: Sources of Strength and Survival beyond the Dispersal

Epilogue: Reconnecting the Modern Diaspora, 1999

Appendix

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Promotional Information

A beautifully written tale of struggle, dispersal, and survival that turns the story of the Wendat conquest on its head.

About the Author

Kathryn Magee Labelle is an assistant professor in the History Department at the University of Saskatchewan.

Reviews

… the devastating Haudenosaunee attacks in 1649 have long shaped the ways scholars have narrated and understood the past of the Wendat people … So dramatic was this dispersal that many historians and anthropologists have portrayed it as the end of Wendat history and any meaningful Wendat peoplehood. Kathryn Magee Labelle forcefully challenges, and convincingly demolishes, this “discourse of destruction” (p. 196) in her aptly-named Dispersed but Not Destroyed … A topnotch ethnohistory, Labelle’s book … draws a complex yet coherent picture of the vibrant Wendat diaspora. At the same time it prompts broader questions about power, society, and narrative in the study of seventeenth-century North America.
*Histoire sociale / Social History*

A nuanced and highly readable account of the Wendat people’s turbulent history, which challenges the notion of the Wendat’s disappearance as a cohesive community in the wake of the Iroquois attacks of the mid-seventeenth century.
*Roger M. Carpenter, Department of History, University of Louisiana Monroe*