History 2201E : Questions for reading on Jesuit Relations
22 Mar 2012
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History 2201e: questions related to father jean de br beuf"s of the polity of the hurons and of their government, 1636 as translated and reproduced in the jesuit relations: Natives and missionaries in north america, by allan greer, 2000. For this book, university of toronto historian allan greer has selected various excerpts from the multi-volumed jesuit relations, which the jesuit missionaries produced annually to send back to. France as an account of their efforts, mainly in what is now quebec and ontario, to convert the native people to catholic christianity. The jesuits" accounts were published annually in paris between 1632 and 1673. Greer describes the jesuit relations as the most important set of documentary materials on the seventeenth-century encounter of europeans and native north. For the best part of fifteen years br beuf lived among the hurons in the. He died in huronia in 1649 when the iroquois exterminated the settlement.
