The Iroquois dominated the east of North America. The Iroquois attacked New France's outposts in the 1650s and 1660s, killing settlers and taking prisoners. (As portrayed in Canada: A People's ...

"Behold me then," he wrote in his journal, "an Iroquois war chief!" Despite this status, Bougainville thought the natives were a necessary evil. Their alliance with the French was always freighted ...