Fathers and Crows

Fathers and Crows
	First US edition
Author	William T. Vollmann
Cover artist	Alfred Pommier, "Martyrdom of Three Jesuit Priests, Father Brebeuf and Lallemant at the Stakes", 1649
Language	English
Series	Seven Dreams: A Book of North American Landscapes
Genre	Historical novel
Publisher	Viking Press (US); Andre Deutsch (UK)
Publication date	1992
Publication place	United States
Media type	Print
Pages	1008 pp
ISBN	0-670-84333-4
OCLC	25964915
Dewey Decimal	813/.54 20
LC Class	PS3572.O395 F38 1992
Preceded by	The Ice-Shirt
Followed by	Argall: 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

^ http://www.wikigallery.org/wiki/painting_232302/Alfred-Pommier/Martyrdom-of-three-Jesuit-priests,-1649
^ Hebblethwaite, Cordelia (October 21, 2012). "First Catholic Native American saint". BBC. Retrieved August 19, 2019.

External links

Skow, John (August 31, 1992). "Collision of Cultures". Time.

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[1] ttp://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.

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v t e 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)
Standalone novels	You Bright and Risen Angels (1987) Europe Central (2005)
Non-fiction	An Afghanistan Picture Show: Or, How I Saved the World (1992) Rising Up and Rising Down: Some Thoughts on Violence, Freedom and Urgent Means (2003) Uncentering the Earth (2006) Poor People (2007) Riding Toward Everywhere (2008) Imperial (2009) Kissing the Mask (2010) The Book of Dolores (2013) No Immediate Danger: Volumes One and Two of Carbon Ideologies (2018)