Champlain is back and forth between France and Canada as he tries to find his way into the well established trade and kinship networks of the Wendat. He also gets married and his choice of bride isn't great.

Sources:

Champlain's Dream by David Hackett Fischer

The Making of Canada: An Epic History in Twenty Extraordinary Lives by Greg Koabel

The Children of Aateantsic: A History of the Huron People to 1660 by Bruce Trigger

Natives and Newcomers: Canada's "Heroic Age" Reconsidered by Bruce Trigger

Journal Article:

Carpenter, Roger. “Making War More Lethal: Iroquois vs. Huron in the Great Lakes Region, 1609 to 1650.” Michigan Historical Review 27, no. 2 (Fall 2001): 33–51. DOI: 10.2307/20173927 

Fox, William "“It’s not personal, it’s strictly business”: Historical Accounts and Archaeological Evidence Concerning an Early-Seventeenth Century Partnership". Ontario History 115, no. 1 (2023) : 99–113. https://doi.org/10.7202/1098786ar

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