The fortified towns of Stadacona and Hochelaga that greeted Cartier — and then vanished.
Gone by about 1580 from warfare and disease; Champlain found their valley empty in 1603.
Covers Cartier's encounters and the early St. Lawrence world the Iroquoians of Stadacona and Hochelaga vanished from (broad colonial context).
A Native-centered account of early eastern North America and its contact-era upheavals (broad context).
Primary source: Cartier's accounts of his 1534, 1535-36, and 1541-42 voyages are the only firsthand documents of Stadacona and Hochelaga at their height; the Biggar edition (Champlain Society) is the standard scholarly text.
Trigger's foundational Huron history includes substantial treatment of the St. Lawrence Iroquoians — their relationship to the Huron confederacy, the mystery of their disappearance, and Cartier's encounters at Stadacona and Hochelaga.