The North American territory claimed by France was always a multilingual space – a huge tract of North America populated by indigenous peoples speaking languages belonging primarily to the Algonquian and Iroquoian familie...

Far from presenting a happy image of colonization, Rameau and Fuzelier question the myth of the good savage and question again the links between Americans and Europeans.

The Relations des Jésuites de la Nouvelle France are the annual reports sent to France by the superiors of Canadian missions. Published from 1632 to 1673, for propaganda purposes, they nonetheless shed considerable light ...

While France’s alliances with Indigenous peoples were essential to their colonization efforts in North America, the development of New France was also marked by major conflicts which occupied an important place in the doc...