Living with the French Regime:

Seven Nations of Canada Jeune Lorette Kahnawake (Caughnawaga) Kanesatake (Lake of Two Mountains) Akwesasne (St. Regis) Odanak (St. Francis) Becancoeur Oswegatchie

Native Mission Villages Economy Culture Language Mixed Ancestry/Marriage Schooling Law French subjects or French allies?

Kateri Tekakwitha (Mohawk, Mohawk Valley/Kahnawake, ) 1.Her mother was a former Algonquin captive/adoptee, and her father was Mohawk 2.As a child, smallpox left her with a condition where her eyes were very sensitive to light so she stayed mostly indoors 3.She was baptised in 1676, and her expressions of faith in the following years included fasting and physical harm to her body in penance for sins

Kateri Tekakwitha (continued) 4.She died at Kahnawake at age 24, probably as a result of fasting and self-harm for penance 5.She became “Blessed” by the Catholic church in 1980, and is the first Native North American to have been proposed for sainthood

Detroit Establishment of Detroit, 1701 Jesuit impressions of early Detroit Cadillac’s description of Detroit, 1702 The Le Pesant affair, 1706 D’Aigrement’s description of Detroit, 1708 Detroit’s decline, King’s Post, 1724 Detroit by midcentury