Dispersed but not destroyed : a history of the seventeenth-century Wendat people - Kathryn Magee Labelle

A history of the Wendat people originally living around the south shore of Georgian Bay.  The book looks at their traditional social and political organization, and then goes on to explore their relationship to the French, especially the missionaries and the introduction of Christianity.  It takes a much more subtle look at Christian and non-Christian interaction within the group, and also at the political and social forces that played a role in the Wendat's conversion and continued relationship with the French.  The author discusses how the Wendat sought to use the French connection to further their tribal role as economic intermediaries and negotiators in relationships between various north eastern tribal groups.  She creates a portrait of a very subtle and savvy people looking to best further their goals and survival, which is very different from the older view of the Wendat as losers forced out in a war with the Iroquois.
Another subject explored is the dispersal of the Wendat, some to Quebec, some to further west on the Great Lakes, some into Iroquois territory south of Lake Ontario.  The groups that moved down into Iroquois territory did so very much on their own terms, and then served as middle-men between the French and the Iroquois, who had traditionally aligned with the English and the Dutch.  Turns out the Iroquois raids into Wendat territory were motivated by the need to recruit new members to the tribe after the devastating disease outbreaks of the late 1600s.  The Iroquois' goal was to build a large population formed of all the united Iroquoian groups as a way of having a counterbalance against the English.

A bit academic, but interesting in that it portrays these societies in a much more subtle and active way than traditional historical portrayals.