{"id":337,"date":"2011-04-05T20:20:52","date_gmt":"2011-04-05T20:20:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.historymuseum.ca\/nouvelle-france\/"},"modified":"2015-10-01T08:14:55","modified_gmt":"2015-10-01T12:14:55","slug":"north-america-before-virtual-museum-of-new-france","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.historymuseum.ca\/virtual-museum-of-new-france\/colonies-and-empires\/north-america-before-virtual-museum-of-new-france\/","title":{"rendered":"North America Before New France"},"content":{"rendered":"

Almost 11,000 years ago, Natives from the south began exploring the territory that would become, in the modern era, New France. The arrival of these men and women in what would much later be known as North America marked the beginning of human settlements on land that, up to that point, had been entirely covered in ice.<\/p>\n

Turtle effigy<\/strong>
Many Aboriginal peoples believed that they lived on the back of a Great Turtle that floated on a primeval sea. This small effigy, carved in amber coloured soapstone and decorated with incised motifs, was discovered not far from the Ottawa River, in Renfrew County, Ontario. The date of its fabrication is unknown, but likely predates the arrival of the French.
\u00a9 Canadian Museum of Civilization, no. VIII-F-19841, photo Marie-Louise Deruaz, IMG2008-0583-0257-Dm<\/div>\">\"Turtle<\/a>

Turtle effigy<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

In this fascinating article, Michel Plourde reveals a widely unknown facet of the history, or rather, the prehistory of New France. He takes the reader on a journey to discover the various Native civilizations that inhabited the main settlement areas of New France \u2013 Acadia, the St. Lawrence Valley and Louisiana \u2013 during the millennial that preceded the arrival of the first European settlers.<\/p>\n

By using the latest archaeological data, the author introduces us to these peoples, the early ancestors of the Iroquois, Huron, Innu and Natchez, and highlights the cultural differences that existed amongst them in terms of, for example, social organization, economy and lifestyle.<\/p>\n

The reader may be surprised by the evolution of their ways of life and cultures, as well as the major changes that occurred in their societies, such as in their diet, during the last millennial of the period we call \u201cprehistoric.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Almost 11,000 years ago, Natives from the south began exploring the territory that would become, in the modern era, New France. The arrival of these men and women in what would much later be known as North America marked the beginning of human settlements on land that, up to that point, had been entirely covered […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"parent":298,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historymuseum.ca\/virtual-museum-of-new-france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/337"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historymuseum.ca\/virtual-museum-of-new-france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historymuseum.ca\/virtual-museum-of-new-france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historymuseum.ca\/virtual-museum-of-new-france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historymuseum.ca\/virtual-museum-of-new-france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=337"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.historymuseum.ca\/virtual-museum-of-new-france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3521,"href":"https:\/\/www.historymuseum.ca\/virtual-museum-of-new-france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/337\/revisions\/3521"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historymuseum.ca\/virtual-museum-of-new-france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historymuseum.ca\/virtual-museum-of-new-france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}