Champlain's Fight with the Iroquois; Letters. This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996.

The Iroquois first met the French in 1609, at the wrong end of Samuel de Champlain’s gun. Seeking allies in the fur trade, Champlain had tried to curry favor with the Iroquois’ rivals, the ...