18th and 20th/21st centuries (Temporal Keyword)
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‘The Jesuits Mission Proves We Were Here’: 18th Century Jesuit Missions Aiding 21st Century Tribal Recognition. (2019)
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This is an abstract from the "Jesuit Missions, Plantations, and Industries" session, at the 2019 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Records indicate that during the French colonial period, Jesuit fathers established four mission congregations within the territory now known as Vermont. These missions were established to preach to both French colonists and Native converts on Ilse La Motte, on the Missisquoi River in Swanton, at Fort Saint-Frederic on Lake Champlain and in...