Word: ihonatiria
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Moore attempts to warm this chilly view with a sense of tragedy. His Father Laforgue is a composite of the passionate and courageous priests who followed Samuel de Champlain and the early fur trappers into the region. Laforgue's assignment is to relieve a remote mission at Ihonatiria on the shores of Lake Huron. He and a young French assistant named Daniel must travel by canoe in the company of an Algonquin band that is the birchbark equivalent of a motorcycle gang...
...trail, providing the author with the simplest means of moving his story and creating suspense. The main test of wills occurs hastily in the last 50 pages and contains a solar eclipse that frightens off hostile Indians just as they are about to kill the black robes of Ihonatiria. Parkman's history tells of a priest who knew enough astronomy to impress the natives with a prediction of an eclipse. Moore turns this event into a scene that belongs in the Movie of the Week...
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