Abstracts
Abstract
“Of Chiefs and Kings” is about the role of Wendat diplomatic traditions, explored through documentary and pictorial evidence and the arts of ceremonial dress. I will describe diplomatic interactions between Wendat and British communities between 1838 and 1842, through which the Wendat affirmed commitments of military and civilian support and asserted a continued Wendat presence in their traditional territories. By their dynamic public representation of Indigenous identity, they denied the romanticized notion of the vanishing race, deeply rooted in the popular imagination. These events marked a particular moment within a Wendat history of diplomatic engagement and intercultural exchange with European leaders, extending back to the early seventeenth century.
Wendat and British first-hand accounts furnish perspectives of individual members of each community, while Wendat elders’ recollections of ceremonial traditions give important community knowledge of the significance of these events to the Wendat, at an important time in the history of Wendake and Lower Canada.
Résumé
Cet article porte sur le rôle des relations diplomatiques Wendat, analysées par le biais de documents écrits et iconographiques et de l’art des tenues de cérémonie. Il décrit les interactions diplomatiques entre les communautés Wendat et britanniques entre 1838 et 1842, lors desquelles les Wendat ont affirmé leurs engagements pour un soutien civil et militaire et ont assuré une présence continue dans leurs territoires ancestraux. Par une représentation dynamique de leur identité publique indigène, ils sont allés en contradiction avec l’image romantisée et profondément enracinée dans l’imagination populaire d’une race en disparition. Ces événements ont marqué un moment particulier dans l’histoire des Wendat et de leurs engagements diplomatiques et échanges interculturels avec les dirigeants européens, qui remontent au début du XVIIe siècle.
Les témoignages d’époque des Wendat et des Britanniques apportent des regards de la part de membres individuels de chaque communauté, tandis que les souvenirs des anciens Wendat sur les traditions cérémoniales entretiennent un savoir collectif sur l’importance de ces événements pour les Wendat, à un moment important de l’histoire de Wendake et du Bas-Canada.
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