Contents -- Illustrations -- List of Maps -- Preface to the 1987 Reprinting -- Preface to the First Edition -- CHAPTER 1 Introduction -- Aims -- Historians and Canadian Indians -- Ethnohistory and the Role of Anthropology -- A Statement of Methods and Assumptions -- CHAPTER 2 The Huron and Their Neighbours -- The Huron Land and Economy -- The Bonds of Friendship -- Enemies -- The Individual and Society -- The Iroquoian Cultural Pattern -- CHAPTER 3 The Birth of the Huron -- Ontario Prehistory -- The Huron Confederacy
The Historic Location of the HuronPrehistoric Trade -- CHAPTER 4 Alien Shadows -- Cartier and Roberval on the St. Lawrence -- Trade on the St. Lawrence 1543-1600 -- The Disappearance of the St. Lawrence Iroquoians -- Survivors -- The Birth of the French-Algonkian Alliance -- The Huron and the Early French Fur Trade -- CHAPTER 5 Forging an Alliance -- The Huron on the St. Lawrence -- Sealing the Alliance -- Conclusion -- CHAPTER 6 The Quiet Years -- Introduction -- Trade with the French -- The French in the Huron Country -- Huron Life
