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Fathers and Crows

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Fathers and Crows
First US edition
AuthorWilliam T. Vollmann
Cover artistAlfred Pommier, "Martyrdom of Three Jesuit Priests, Father Brebeuf and Lallemant at the Stakes", 1649[1]
LanguageEnglish
SeriesSeven Dreams: A Book of North American Landscapes
GenreHistorical novel
PublisherViking Press (US)
Andre Deutsch (UK)
Publication date
1992
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint
Pages1008 pp
ISBN0-670-84333-4
OCLC25964915
813/.54 20
LC ClassPS3572.O395 F38 1992
Preceded byThe Ice-Shirt 
Followed byArgall: 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]

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