Pro tempore, No. 17, 2022.
Review article
Jacques Cartier – The First Encounters between the Amerindians and the French in Today's Canada
Gabrijel Bradić
Abstract
This paper focuses on the three expeditions of the French explorer Jacques Cartier that he undertook between 1534 and 1541. The paper is divided into two main parts, the first of which deals with the issue of the authenticity of the source itself and the question of its authorship. Ramsay Cook, who translated and compiled writings from all three of Cartier's voyages, is responsible for the latest edition of that source known as "The Voyages". The second part focuses on the relationship between the Canadian Amerindians and Cartier's crew. This whole covers mutual ideas, and their construction of possible motives that explain certain actions on one side and the other. Also in this part, certain products of the initial contact, which include trade and the issue of religion, will be objectively problematized.
Keywords
Jacques Cartier; Amerindians; Canada; colonization
Hrčak ID:
301686
URI
Publication date:
24.12.2022.
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