Words of the Huron Lacrosse Weesakechahk tricks the bear

Weesakechahk tricks the bear

Listening to Our Ancestors: The Art of Native Life Along the North Pacific Coast is a co-publication from the National Museum of the American Indian and the National Geographic Society

Several colour photographs display the finished product

Yet the story of Africville

Monias Fiddler

Words of the Huron Lacrosse Weesakechahk tricks the bearFascinating study of seventeenth century Huron Wendat language from early Jesuit writing sources. This form of linguistic archaeology covers the Huron or Wendat as well as the Wyandot (Petun) Nations and their culture, kinship, clans, relationship to the environment, material culture, ceremonies, warfare, medicine and disease, and relationship to the French. Of particular interest is the coverage of the construction of longhouses and wooden armour,