“The meeting between the Canadiens and indigenous peoples shakes up traditional historiography. Meriwether Lewis found it abhorrent. Yet that encounter had already left an indelible mark before the Oregon Trail opened in the 1840s. Foxcurran, Bouchard and Malette have masterfully uncovered the story that the Lewis and Clark expedition buried.” Denis Vaugeois, author of America, The Lewis & Clark Expedition and the Dawn of a New Power