Foreword
Preface
LIST OF MAPS AND ILLUSTRATIONS
Introduction: Native North America and the French Jesuits
The Society of Jesus in Europe and Abroad
Iroquoians and Algonquians
The Colonization of New France
The Canadian Missions
The Jesuit Relations and Their Readers
Confronting the Other: The Problem of Cultural and Historical Difference
1. Montagnais Hunters of the Northern Woodlands
Paul Le Jeune Winters with Mestigoits Band, 1633-1634
Paul Le Jeune, Journal [of a Winter Hunt], 1634
Paul Le Jeune, On Their Hunting and Fishing, 1634
The Montagnais Described
Paul Le Jeune, On the Beliefs, Superstitions, and Errors of the Montagnais Indians, 1634
Paul Le Jeune, On the Good Things Which Are Found among the Indians, 1634
How to Settle Disputes and Discipline Children
Paul Le Jeune, What Occurred in New France in the Year 1633, 1633
2. Jean de Brébeuf on the Hurons
Language
Jean de Brébeuf, Of the Language of the Hurons, 1636
Religion, Myth, and Ritual
Jean de Brébeuf, What the Hurons Think about Their Origin, 1636
Jean de Brébeuf, That the Hurons Recognize Some Divinity; Of Their Superstitions and of Their Faith in Dreams, 1636
Jean de Brébeuf, Concerning Feasts, Dances…and What They Call Ononharoia, 1636
Law and Government
Jean de Brébeuf, Of the Polity of the Hurons and of Their Government, 1636
Jean de Brébeuf, Of the Order the Hurons Observe in Their Councils, 1636
The Huron Feast of the Dead
Jean de Brébeuf, Of the Solemn Feast of the Dead, 1636
3. Disease and Medicine
Huron Medical Practices
Jean de Brébeuf, [Cure by Lacrosse], 1636
Jérôme Lalemant, [Cure by Gambling], 1639
Jérôme Lalemant, [Satisfying the Souls Desires], 1639
The Influenza Epidemic of 1637
François Le Mercier, The Malady with Which Our Little Household Has Been Afflicted, 1637
François Le Mercier, The Help We Have Given to the Sick of Our Village, 1637
François Le Mercier, Ossossané Afflicted with the Contagion, 1637
François Le Mercier, Of the Hurons Baptized this Year, 1638, 1638
Smallpox among the Hurons, 1639
Jérôme Lalemant, Of the Persecutions Excited against Us, 1640
A Medical Duel: Father Allouez and the Potawotamis
Claude Allouez, Of the Mission to the Potawotamis, 1666-1667
4. Diplomacy and War
Peace Negotiations at Three Rivers, 1645
Barthélemy Vimont, Treaty of Peace between the French, Iroquois, and Other Nations, 1644-1645
Iroquois Attacks on the Algonquians, 1647
Jérôme Lalemant, Some Iroquois Surprised after Defeating the Algonquians; A Woman Kills an Iroquois and Escapes, 1647
The Hurons Annihilated, 1649
Paul Ragueneau, Of the Capture of the Villages of the Mission of St. Ignace, in the Month of March of the Year 1649, 1648-1649
5. Writings on the Natural Environment
Montagnais Explanations of a Solar Eclipse
Paul Le Jeune, Of Their Customs and Their Belief, 1637
The Moral Qualities of Animals
Jérôme Lalemant, Various Matters, 1647-1648
Earthquakes, Comets, and Other Prophetic Signs
Jérôme Lalemant, Three Suns and Other Aerial Phenomena Which Appeared in New France, 1662-1663
Jérôme Lalemant, Universal Earthquake in Canada and Its Marvelous Effects, 1662-1663
François Le Mercier, Of the Comets and Extraordinary Signs That Have Appeared at Quebec and in Its Vicinity,
Nature as a Storehouse of Resources
François Le Mercier, Of the Condition of Canada over the Last Two Years, 1666-1667
6. Missions to the Iroquois
Mission to the Mohawk Country, 1667
François Le Mercier, Of the Mission of Ste. Marie among the Mohawk Iroquois, 1667-1668
The Mohawks Converted
Jean Pierron, Of the Mission of the Martyrs in the Country of the Mohawks, or the Lower Iroquois, 1669-1670
The Iroquois Mission of Sault St. Louis/Kahnawake
Claude Chauchetière, Letter of October 14, 1682, 1682
7. Martyrs and Mystics
The Ordeal of Isaac Jogues
Jérôme Lalemant, How Father Isaac Jogues Was Taken by the Iroquois, and What He Suffered on His First Entrance into Their Country, 1647
A Native Saint
P.F.X. de Charlevoix, Catherine Tegahkouita: An Iroquois Virgin, 1744
8. Exploring the Mississippi
Jacques Marquette, On the First Voyage by Father Marquette toward New Mexico and How the Idea Was Conceived, 1674
APPENDICES
Chronology of Events Related to the Jesuit Relations (1534-1773)
Questions for Consideration
Selected Bibliography
Index