1. The Hurons and Five Nations:

2. Warfare in Five Nations Society
The image of the Iroquois as warrior
Evidence of Iroquois warfare,
The “mourning war” in Iroquois culture
The example of Louis Joncaire as a war captive and Seneca adoptee (1687 to circa 1700)

3. Warfare and European Contact
Localized conflict between Native residents and European newcomers
Intentional entry of Europeans into existing warfare relationships
- 1603: Champlain’s meeting with Native people at Tadoussac
- 1609: Champlain’s offensive with his allies to Ticonderoga

4. The Iroquois Wars Early conflicts (1641-1647)
- Raid on Huron flotilla near Montreal, 1643
Attacks on Huron villages ( )
Dispersal of Huronia (1649)
Dispersal of the Petun (1650), Neutral (1651), and Erie (1657)

5. Contact-Era Factors in Warfare
Existing conflicts
Traditional understandings/purposes of warfare
Trade
Firearms
Disease
Christianity and religious factionalism

6. Historiography of the Iroquois Wars
R. Douglas Francis, Richard Jones, Donald B. Smith, Origins, 4th edition (2000)
--, Origins, 1st edition (1988)
Arthur Lower, Colony to Nation (1946)

7. After the Iroquois Wars
Iroquois control in southern Ontario
French-Iroquois entente
French missions in the St. Lawrence Valley
French trade with the Ojibwa and Ottawa of the Upper Great Lakes
French and Algonquian offensives against the Iroquois in the Lower Great Lakes, 1687
Ojibwa movement into southern Ontario by 1700

8. “The Outaouacs claim that the great river belongs to them, and that no nation can launch a boat on it without their consent. Therefore all who go to trade with the French, although of widely different nations, bear the general name of Outaouac under whose auspices they make the journey.”
Father Francois le Mercier,