The Jesuit relations: natives and missionaries in seventeenth-century North America

Introduction: Native North America and the French Jesuits

1. Montagnais hunters of the Northern woodlands. Paul Le Jeune Winters with Mestigoit's band, 1633-1634

The montagnais described

How to settle disputes and discipline children. 2. Jean de Brebeuf on the Hurons. Language

Religion, myth, and ritual

Law and government

The Huron feast of the dead. 3. Disease and medicine. Huron medical practices

The influenza epidemic of 1637

Smallpox among the Hurons, 1639

A medical duel: Father Allouez and the Potawotamis. 4. Diplomacy and war. Peace negotiations at Three Rivers, 1645

Iroquois attacks on the Algonquins, 1647

The Hurons annihilated, 1649. 5. Writings on the natural environment. Montagnais explanations of a solar eclipse

The moral qualities of animals

Earthquakes, comets, and other prophetic signs

Nature as a storehouse of resources. 6. Missions to the Iroquois. Mission to the Mohawk country, 1667

The Mohawks converted

The Iroquois mission of Sault St. Louis/Kahnawake. 7. Martyrs and mystics. The ordeal of Isaac Jogues

A native saint

Exploring the Mississippi. APPENDICES. Chronology of events related to the Jesuit Relations.