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Armand de La Richardie (7 June 1686 – 17 March 1758) was a French
France

France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
 Roman Catholic missionary
Missionary

A 'missionary' is a member of a religion who works to convert those who do not share the missionary's faith; someone who Proselytism. The word "mission" is derived from the Latin missioninimus...
 in Canada
Canada

Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean....
.

Born at Perigueux
Périgueux

P?rigueux is a Communes of France in the Dordogne Departments of France in Aquitaine in southwestern France.P?rigueux is the Prefectures in France of the department and the capital of the region....
, he entered the Society of Jesus
Society of Jesus

The Society of Jesus is a Roman Catholic religious order of clerks regular whose members are called Jesuits, Soldiers of Jesus Christ, and Foot soldiers of the Pope, because the founder, Saint Ignatius of Loyola, was a knight before becoming a Holy Orders....
 at Bordeaux
Bordeaux

is a Port city on the Garonne in southwest France, with one million inhabitants in its aire urbaine at a 2008 estimate. It is the Capital of the Aquitaine regions of France, as well as the Prefectures in France of the Gironde Departments of France....
, 4 October 1703, and in 1725 was sent to the Canada mission. He spent the two following years helping Father Pierre Daniel Richer at Lorette
Lorette, Manitoba

Lorette is a community in the rural municipality of Tach?, Manitoba, in the province of Manitoba, Canada.A designated place in Canadian census data, Lorette had a population of 610 in the Canada 2006 Census....
, and studying the Huron language. In 1728 he went to Detroit to re-establish the long-interrupted mission to the dispersed Petun
Petun

The Petun or Tionontati were an Iroquoian-speaking people whose homeland was located in the area immediately to the west of the territory of the Wyandot in Southern Ontario, a people to whom they were closely related....
-Hurons in the West.






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Armand de La Richardie (7 June 1686 – 17 March 1758) was a French
France

France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
 Roman Catholic missionary
Missionary

A 'missionary' is a member of a religion who works to convert those who do not share the missionary's faith; someone who Proselytism. The word "mission" is derived from the Latin missioninimus...
 in Canada
Canada

Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean....
.

Born at Perigueux
Périgueux

P?rigueux is a Communes of France in the Dordogne Departments of France in Aquitaine in southwestern France.P?rigueux is the Prefectures in France of the department and the capital of the region....
, he entered the Society of Jesus
Society of Jesus

The Society of Jesus is a Roman Catholic religious order of clerks regular whose members are called Jesuits, Soldiers of Jesus Christ, and Foot soldiers of the Pope, because the founder, Saint Ignatius of Loyola, was a knight before becoming a Holy Orders....
 at Bordeaux
Bordeaux

is a Port city on the Garonne in southwest France, with one million inhabitants in its aire urbaine at a 2008 estimate. It is the Capital of the Aquitaine regions of France, as well as the Prefectures in France of the Gironde Departments of France....
, 4 October 1703, and in 1725 was sent to the Canada mission. He spent the two following years helping Father Pierre Daniel Richer at Lorette
Lorette, Manitoba

Lorette is a community in the rural municipality of Tach?, Manitoba, in the province of Manitoba, Canada.A designated place in Canadian census data, Lorette had a population of 610 in the Canada 2006 Census....
, and studying the Huron language. In 1728 he went to Detroit to re-establish the long-interrupted mission to the dispersed Petun
Petun

The Petun or Tionontati were an Iroquoian-speaking people whose homeland was located in the area immediately to the west of the territory of the Wyandot in Southern Ontario, a people to whom they were closely related....
-Hurons in the West. Not a solitary professing Christian did he find, but among the aged not a few had been baptized
Baptism

In Christianity, baptism is the ritual act, with the use of water, by which one is admitted as a full member of the Christian Church and, in the view of some, as a member of the particular Church in which the baptism is administered....
. The new Indian church, though "seventy cubit
Cubit

File:Cubit rule Egyptian NK from Liverpool museum.jpgA cubit is the first recorded unit of length and was one of many different standards of measurement used through history....
s long" (105ft?) was scarcely spacious enough to contain the fervent congregation of practising Hurons. During the night, 24–25 March 1746, the father was stricken with paralysis
Paralysis

Paralysis is the complete loss of muscle function for one or more muscle groups. Paralysis can cause loss of feeling or loss of mobility in the affected area....
, and on 29 July he was placed in an open canoe and thus conveyed to Quebec
Quebec

Quebec , in French language, Qu?bec , is a Provinces and territories of Canada in the Central Canada and Eastern Canada regions of Canada....
.

In 1747 the Hurons insisted on his returning to restore tranquillity to their nation. The father had almost completely recovered from his palsy
Palsy

In medicine, palsy is the paralysis of a body part, often accompanied by loss of Somatosensory system and by uncontrolled body movements, such as shaking....
, and willingly consented. He set out from Montreal
Montreal

Montreal, or Montr?al, is the largest city in the Provinces and territories of Canada of Quebec and the List of largest cities and second largest cities by country List of the 100 largest municipalities in Canada by population....
 on 10 September, and reached Detroit on 20 October. From this date until 1751, leaving the loyal Hurons in the keeping of Father Potier at the Detroit village, he directed all his energies to reclaiming Nicolas Orontondi's band of insurgent Hurons. These had already in 1740, owing to a bloody feud with the Detroit Ottawa
Ottawa (tribe)

The Odawa or Ottawa, said to mean "traders," are a Native Americans in the United States and First Nations people. They are one of the Anishinaabeg, related to but distinct from the Ojibwa nation....
s and to the reluctance, if not refusal, of Governor Beauharnais
Charles de la Boische, Marquis de Beauharnois

Charles de la Boische, Marquis de Beauharnois was a French Naval officer who served as Governor of New France from 1726 to 1746.Charles had two brothers who also impacted the history of New France....
 to let the Hurons remove to Montreal
Montreal

Montreal, or Montr?al, is the largest city in the Provinces and territories of Canada of Quebec and the List of largest cities and second largest cities by country List of the 100 largest municipalities in Canada by population....
, sullenly left Detroit and settled at "Little Lake" (now Rondeau Harbour
Rondeau Provincial Park

Rondeau Provincial Park is a provincial park in southwestern Ontario, Canada, located on an 8 km long crescentic sand spit extending into Lake Erie....
) near Sandusky
Sandusky

PlacesSandusky is the name of several places in the United States of America:...
. There they had been won over to the English
England

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 cause, had openly revolted in 1747, and had murdered a party of Frenchmen. Early in the spring of 1748 Orontondi set fire to the fort and cabins at Sandusky, and withdrew to the White River
White River (Indiana)

The White River is a two-forked river that flows through central and southern Indiana and is the main tributary to the Wabash River....
, not far from the junction of the Ohio
Ohio River

The Ohio River is the largest tributary, by volume, of the Mississippi River. It is approximately 981 miles long and is located in the eastern United States....
 and Wabash River
Wabash River

The Wabash River is a long river in the eastern United States that flows southwest from northwest Ohio near Fort Recovery, Ohio across northern Indiana to Illinois where it forms the southern Illinois-Indiana border before draining into the Ohio River, of which it is the largest northern tributary....
s. Until his death, which occurred some time after September 1749, Orontondi continued to intrigue with the English emissaries, the Iroquois
Iroquois

The Iroquois Confederacy is a group of First Nations/Native Americans in the United States that originally consisted of five nations: the Mohawk nation, the Oneida tribe, the Onondaga , the Cayuga nation, and the Seneca nation....
, and the disaffected Miamis
Miami tribe

The Miami are a Native Americans in the United States tribe originally found in Indiana, southwest Michigan and Ohio, and now living also in Oklahoma....
. When there was no longer doubt of the renegade leader's demise, de La Richardie resolved on a final attempt at conciliation. He had already at intervals spent months at a time among the fugitives, and now in September 1750, at the peril of his life he started, with only three canoe men for the country of the "Nicolites" as they were then termed. The greater number remained obdurate. It is the descendants of the latter who in July 1843, removed from their lands at Upper Sandusky, Ohio, to beyond the Mississippi
Mississippi

Mississippi is a U.S. state located in the Deep South of the United States. Jackson, Mississippi is the state capital and largest city. The state's name comes from the Mississippi River, which flows along its western boundary, and takes its name from the Anishinaabe language word misi-ziibi ....
, to occupy the Wyandot reserve in the extreme north-eastern part of Oklahoma
Oklahoma

Oklahoma is a U.S. state and a sovereignty located in the South Central United States and Southern United States of the United States of America ....
. The father's failing strength obliged his superiors to recall him to Quebec in 1751, and on 30 June he bade a final farewell to the Detroit mission. From the autumn of 1751 until his death he filled various offices in Quebec College. His Huron name was Ondechaouasti. He died at Quebec.

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