CULTURAL READINGS: Colonization & Print in the Americas

Special Collections, University of Pennsylvania Library	François du Creux, Historiae Canadensis, sev Novae-Franciae libri decem... Paris: Sebastien Cramoisy, 1664.
The depiction of Hurons and other Indian tribes allied with the French in Du Creux's compilation is more sympathetic than that of Iroquois enemies. Du Creux, like earlier viewers, endows these Indians with noble, statuesque qualities.

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