The Jesuit Relations

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As a 73-volume library, the original The Jesuit Relations has long been inaccessible to undergraduate students. Vitally important, the writings of seventeenth-century French Jesuits in Native North America tell the story of early American encounters. This new edition deftly binds them into a thematically arranged, 35-document sampler with a detailed introduction that provides background on these missionaries, the Indians, and their cohabitation in early North America. Colourful journal entries by such fathers as Paul LeJeune, Jean de Brébeuf, Isaac Jogues, and Jacques Marquette describe the Huron, Algonquin, Iroquois, and Montagnais peoples. 

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ALLAN GREER is professor of history and vice-principal of University College at the University of Toronto. The recipient of the John Porter Prize, the Prix Lionel-Groulx, the Sir John A. MacDonald Prize and the Allan Sharlin Prize, he is currently working on a book on the seventeenth-century Mohawk 'saint' Kateri Tekakwitha.

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