THE OHIO VALLEY-GREAT LAKES ETHNOHISTORY
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It is noted that the following work from the Miami Archives should be read and
considered within the historical context in which it was composed and printed.
The opinions expressed and the language used do not reflect the opinions or
standards of the Glenn A. Black Laboratory of Archaeology, but are, rather,
indicative of thought in that historical moment during which the document was
published.
The King to La Barre,
May 10, 1682 (Extract)
Louis of France in: Pease, French Series,
Vol. I, 1934, pp. 17-28.
[A. N., C., C13C3: 31-35- C., extract; printed in part in N. Y. C.
D., 9:167]
. . . .
"It is necessary not only to apply himself to prevent the attacks of the
Iroquois on the French, but also to labor to maintain peace among the savages
themselves and to prevent the Iroquois, by all means, from making war on the
Illinois and the neighboring peoples; for it is very certain that if these
nations from which we draw the peltries, which are the principal articles of
commerce of Canada, see themselves protected from the attacks of the Iroquois by
the protection which they receive from the French, they will be the more
encouraged to bring their goods and will, in this manner, increase the
trade." . . . .
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