Where and who does the quote come from? What country is being referred to?

As the last time in this country, governmental burnings of people at the stake would have occurred most likely by aboriginal people aka "Indians" where burning alive was a not unusual public spectacle, as where many other tortures such a skinning alive, scalping alive, disembowelment alive, etc. where applied to vanquished foes. Aboriginal culture celebrated both the infliction of cruelty and equally the ability to resist the effects of imposed cruelty.

Samuel de Champlain "the father of New France" detailed many such practices as he witnessed them as he fought along side Canadian Algonquin and Huron Indians against their foes to their south the Iroquois Confederacy tribes like the Oneida and Seneca, after arriving in Canada in 1603.