Indigenous Peoples and the History of Quebec
This article makes a series of modest proposals to overcome two recent and highly problematic historiographical trends in the study of the political community in Quebec that tend to obscure First Nations contributions to national history. The author proposes studies of Indigenous history that work to create a productive dialog between the largely separate bodies of work on Quebec, on the one hand, and its Indigenous population, on the other. By emphasizing methodological problems, often arising directly from present-day political projects, and the diverse ways of overcoming such difficulties, the article’s objective is to encourage renewed research (already underway) into Indigenous history in Quebec, not in order to assimilate it into the narrative arc of national history, but to ensure that these two distinct yet connected historiographies interact and inspire one another.