Fathers and Crows

1992 novel by William T. Vollmann

0-670-84333-4OCLC25964915
Dewey Decimal
813/.54 20LC ClassPS3572.O395 F38 1992Preceded byThe Ice-Shirt Followed byArgall: The True Story of Pocahontas and Captain John Smith 

Fathers and Crows is a 1992 historical novel by the American author William T. Vollmann. It is the second book in the seven-book series Seven Dreams: A Book of North American Landscapes.

Fathers and Crows explores the encounters and conflicts between French Jesuit missionaries in New France (Canada) and the native Huron and Iroquois peoples in Canada and present-day New York state. The Natives called the Jesuits "Black Robes", for their clerical costume.

Vollman features historical figures as major characters, including Jean de Brébeuf, Isaac Jogues, Samuel de Champlain, Marc Lescarbot, Jean de Biencourt de Poutrincourt et de Saint-Just, Pierre Dugua, Sieur de Monts, and Kateri Tekakwitha, a Catholic Mohawk religious woman who was canonized in October 2012, the first Native American/First Nations person to be so honored.[2]

References

  1. ^ http://www.wikigallery.org/wiki/painting_232302/Alfred-Pommier/Martyrdom-of-three-Jesuit-priests,-1649
  2. ^ Hebblethwaite, Cordelia (October 21, 2012). "First Catholic Native American saint". BBC. Retrieved August 19, 2019.
  • Skow, John (August 31, 1992). "Collision of Cultures". Time.
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William T. Vollmann
Collections
  • The Rainbow Stories (1989)
  • 13 stories and 13 epitaphs (1991)
  • The Atlas (1996)
  • Last Stories and Other Stories (2014)
Seven Dreams series
  • The Ice-Shirt (1990)
  • Fathers and Crows (1992)
  • The Rifles (1994)
  • Argall (2001)
  • The Dying Grass (2015)
Prostitution Trilogy
  • Whores for Gloria (1991)
  • Butterfly Stories (1993)
  • The Royal Family (2000)
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