Early Encounters in North America: Peoples, Cultures and the Environment

This release of Early Encounters in North America (EENA) contains approximately 40,000 pages of material. When complete the product will include more than 100,000 pages of letters, diaries, memoirs and accounts of early encounters. Particular care has been taken to index the material so that it can be used in new ways. For example, you can identify all encounters between the French and the Huron between 1650 and 1700. The collection is centered on present-day Canada and the United States with some limited coverage of Mexico. The papers may be browsed by author, source, year, peoples, places, images, fauna, flora, environment, personal events and cultural events.