Aboriginals in 17th century New France Analytical Essay by Top Papers

This paper addresses Ian K Steele's fourth chapter of "Warpaths - Invasions of North America" and its account of the precariousness of New France well into the 17th century. The paper discusses how the Iroquois were rather the French's equals and were adept at resisting French ambitions to do with the fur trade as much as colonization. The paper provides notes on the tendency to telescope history towards motifs of Aboriginal doom and 'inevitable' decline that were not at all indicated in the 16th century.