John L. Steckley

Words of the Huron

Words of the Huron is an investigation into seventeenth-century Huron culture through a kind of linguistic archaeology of a language that died midway ...

The Eighteenth-Century Wyandot

A Clan-Based Study

The Wyandot were born of two Wendat peoples encountered by the French in the first half of the seventeenth century—the otherwise named Petun and Hur...

Forty Narratives in the Wyandot Language

In 1911-1912, French-Canadian anthropologist Marius Barbeau spent a year recording forty texts in the Wyandot language as spoken by native speakers in...

Indian Agents

Rulers of the Reserves

Canadians are beginning to learn about the negative effects of residential schools on Aboriginal people in Canada. More hidden in the written record, ...

The Problem of Translating Catholic Doctrine Into the Language of an Indigenous Horticultural Tribe

A Study of Jesuit Father Jean de Brébeuf¿s 1630 CCatechism of the Wendat (Huron) People

The book involves the translation and analysis of Jesuit Father Jean de Brebeuf's catechism in Wendat (Huron), published in 1630 1nd 1632, and based o...

Full Circle

"Full Circle is appropriate for college and university courses in Anthropology, Sociology, Native Studies and Canadian Studies. Using a 'native-centri...