The Jesuit Relations Natives and Missionaries in Seventeenth-Century North America

The Jesuit Relations is a massive, 73-volume library of French Jesuit missionaries' perspectives on Native North America in the seventeenth century. Due to the vastness of the collection, these documents, vitally important in telling the story of early American encounters, have been virtually inaccessible until now. Allan Greer deftly binds them into a collection ideal for the classroom, and his introduction provides background on the Jesuits, the Natives, and their cohabitation in early North America. Greer has created a rich resource of journal entries by such missionaries as Paul LeJeune, Jean de Brébeuf, Isaac Jogues, Jacques Marquette, and of the daily habits and spirituality of the Huron, Algonquin, Iroquois and Montagnais peoples. Students will also find a wealth of natural history, ethnographic details, and travel diction in these first-hand accounts of early American history.