Indigenous peoples -- Canada -- Government relations, Indigenous peoples -- Government relations, Canada -- History -- to 1763 (New France), Indigenous peoples -- First contact with Europeans -- North America 

"Friend and Foe is a chronicle of early French relations with the tribes inhabiting America - relations far less friendly and cooperative than are portrayed in French history and assumed in popular depictions. Professor Jaenen's singular and original study is a work of major significance, thoroughly researched and well written. Every aspect of contact between the two cultures is scrupulously examined, from Cartier's initial voyage and his return to France with Chief Donnacona's sons, to the later phenomena of the fur trade, missionary efforts, assimilation, conflicts and tortures, segregation and the reservation system, epidemics, pandemics, the undermining of traditional native cultures, the upsetting of the ecosystem, and the perennial problem of alcholism.

What lends this work its unique character is Professor Jaenen's reconstruction and analysis of both the French and the Amerindian's sentiments and viewpoints. Further, he delineates the challenges and repercussions that inter-cultural contact brought to each of the participating peoples - ecological, social, political, and moral.

A broad and penetrating work, Friend and Foe takes into consideration the findings of modern archaeology and anthropology while staying solidly within the compass of traditional history. This study was awarded the Sainte-Marie Prize in History for 1973, as the work best embodying original historical research and interpretation of 17th century Canada."--Book jacket.