vanderdonck

Updated: May 1, 2025

He had a prodigious influence; for it was he who spoke to men in dreams. The Five Nations recognized still another superhuman personage, plainly a deified chief or hero. Compare Cusick, Megapolensis, and Vanderdonck. Some writers identify Tarenyowagon and Hiawatha. Vanderdonck assumes that Areskoui is the Devil, and Tarenyowagon is God.

Francis Parkman - The Jesuits in North America in the Seventeenth Century

The back of the tortoise grew into a world full of verdure and life; and Jouskeha, with his grandmother, Ataentsic, ruled over its destinies. No two Indians told it precisely alike, though nearly all the Hurons and Iroquois agreed as to its essential points. Compare Vanderdonck, Cusick, Sagard, and other writers.

Francis Parkman - The Jesuits in North America in the Seventeenth Century

The house was one chamber, sometimes lodging more than twenty families. See also Champlain , 78; Brebeuf, Relation des Hurons, 1635, 31; Vanderdonck, New Netherlands, in N. Y. Hist. Coll., Second Ser., I. 196; Lafitau, Moeurs des Sauvages, II. 10. The account given by Cartier of the houses he saw at Montreal corresponds with the above. He describes them as about fifty yards long.

Francis Parkman - The Jesuits in North America in the Seventeenth Century

According to Vanderdonck, Ataentsic became mother of a deer, a bear, and a wolf, by whom she afterwards bore all the other animals, mankind included. Brebeuf found also among the Hurons a tradition inconsistent with that of Ataentsic, and bearing a trace of Algonquin origin.

Francis Parkman - The Jesuits in North America in the Seventeenth Century