"your Fyre Shall Burn No More": Iroquois Policy Toward New France and Its Native Allies to 1701, Paperback/Jose Antonio Brandao

Why were the Iroquois unrelentingly hostile toward the French colonists and their Native allies? The longstanding "Beaver War" interpretation of seventeenth-century Iroquois-French hostilities holds that the Iroquois' motives were primarily economic, aimed at controlling the profitable fur trade. Jos Ant nio Brand o argues persuasively against this view. Drawing from the original French and English sources, Brand o has compiled a vast array of quantitative data about Iroquois raids and mortality rates. He offers a penetrating examination of seventeenth-century Iroquoian attitudes toward foreign policy and warfare, contending that the Iroquois fought New France not primarily to secure their position in a new market economy but for reasons that traditionally fueled Native warfare: to replenish their populations, safeguard hunting territories, protect their homes, gain honor, and seek revenge. About the Author Jos Ant nio Brand o, coauthor of My Country, Our History , is an assistant professor of American Indian history at Western Michigan University.