The document provides an overview of the Jesuit Relations, which were accounts published in the 17th century detailing the missionary work and experiences of Jesuits among Native American groups in Northeastern North America. It focuses on the Jesuit work with the Montagnais, Hurons, Algonquins, and Iroquois peoples, including descriptions of their cultures, the Jesuit efforts to convert them to Catholicism, and the devastating epidemics and wars that devastated these populations.
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1. How do these primary sources demonstrate the strangeness of cultural encounters on the eve of European exploration of America? What SPECIFIC passages best demonstrate the strangeness and uneasiness that American Indians had towards European explorers?
The first strangeness and uncomfortable that was evident during the first meeting between the American Indians and the Europeans is that there was a deep cultural misunderstanding between them.{why not go to the document: John Heckewelder on the Indians meet the Dutch or go to the document of Peter the Martyr meeting the Tainos Indians? The Montagnais Indians meeting the French? The floating island story? Why not work with those documents? How strange did each culture see each other? Give specific examples from these documents.]{I am unsure who Gray is? What is this source you reference?].Guided by the success of France and Spain in America, the English started their exploration of the new world in 1585, with the journey of Sir Walter Raleigh to the outer banks of the Carolinas. Later English entrepreneurs of the London Company of Virginia met the Powhatan Indians. When the English tried to assert power over the natives, the Powhatan on the other, hand were planning to use the English to strengthen their confederacy in regional intertribal competition. [elaborate: give specific examples from the document you are interpreting} The struggle between the two groups led to the introduction of skills and goods of the other culture into theirs.
5.How did John Smith describe Powhatan Indian religion? In what ways did he demonstrate European bias?
The Powhatan people like other American Indian tribes were very spiritual people whose religion was founded on animism. The Powhatans, much like the northeastern woodland Indians believed in the interaction between the physical and the spiritual world. They believed in an all including spirit—the power of everything, the Great Spirit (Brébeuf, 2008). The English Captain John Smith observed the religious practices of the Powhatans. Through his observations we see both the strangeness of Indian religion to European eyes and the bias lenses of Smith. {now give me SPECIFIC observations of smith to demonstrate his non-understanding of their religion and how he demonstrated his belief that the Powhatans were pagan] Also, Powhatan believed in demon spirit and in medicine men who acted as spiritual intermediates. The sequence of gods that the natives worshiped was offered gifts to gain favor for the hunt. . {Give me a specific example from the document] The European bias was evident in Smith letter where it is clear that converting from unbelief to belief or heathen to Christian depended on the New World project plantation that used substation. {Give me a specific example from the document] (John Smith describes Powhatans 97-98)
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The jesuit relations
1. The Jesuit Relations
History 140: History/Americas thru
1800
Dr. Arguello
Patricia Fonseca
November 20, 2011
2. Introduction to Jesuit Relations
• These volumes recounted the efforts of evangelizing, colonization,
the devastation of epidemics, the outbreak of war, and other events
affecting the Indians of the Northeast.
• They were published in Paris from 1632-1673.
• The Society of Jesus was a group of men who took special vows of
poverty and obedience. Their efforts included education, literary
and scientific activities pastoral care, and overseas missions. They
operated schools, sponsored devotional societies, preached to
peasants, and gave spiritual advice to kings.
• Their greatest success was in Paraguay. The Guarani people faced
exceptionally brutal Spaniards to the west and Brazilian slave raiders
to the east. The life the missionaries offered was a better option
than the other two alternatives.
• The pope disbanded the society in 1773.
3. Introduction to Jesuit Relations
• The Jesuits extended their missionary work to almost every Indian
nation in the Northeast.
• They dedicated the majority of their work to four nations: The
Montagnais, the Algonquins, the Hurons and the Iroquois.
• These nations experienced many changes due to new colonization.
They endured devastating epidemics, economic change due to the
fur trades, technological advances, and the reshaping of their
thinking and behavior due to “directed assimilation”.
• By the 1640’s, The Iroquios, the Hurons, the Algonquins and their
French allies captured, tortured and killed several missionaries.
• In the 1640’s, a substantial amount of adult natives had accepted
the Jesuit’s Catholicism.
• This was not a lasting effect as many of the converts died off or
deserted.
4. Chapter 1: Montagnais Hunters of the Northern
Woodlands
• Written by Father Paul Le Jeune (1592-1664).
• The Montagnais were hunter-gatherers.
• Due to the fur trade, these people had been involved in
extensive contact with the French.
• During the summer, they gathered berries and fished in the St.
Lawrence River. In autumn, they moved inland and hunted
moose and other large mammals for meat and hides, as well
as beavers, which they traded to the French.
• They crafted canoes out of birch bark in summer and used
wooden toboggans in the winter.
• The Montagnais -Algonquins believed everything possessed its
own spirit and personality. Each one could be either helpful or
harmful.
5. Chapter 1: Montagnais Hunters of the Northern
Woodlands
• In 1633, Father Le Jeune followed a Montagnais band into the
interior in search of game. He wanted to better understand
their language and their customs while trying to convert them
to his Catholicism.
• Father Le Jeune described the Indians as tall, strong and agile.
The Indians were not interested in gaining power, but in
serving their chief through goodwill. They refrain from anger
to keep themselves content and happy. They also practice
courage and great patience.
• Settling a dispute is quite easy for these Indians. If someone is
killed or injured, the person who was responsible would give
gifts to the family of the one he killed or hurt and the offense
was forgiven.
6. Chapter 2: Jean de Brebeuf on the Hurons
• From 1634-1649, the Jesuits focused the majority of their
resources on converting the Hurons.
• The Hurons lived in large population, stable village habitats.
• Their religious beliefs are based on a fable of a woman who
falls from Heaven into the waters of Earth below. They place
great faith in their dreams.
• They believe all things, such as the earth, rivers, rocks and the
sky, all have spirits or demons.
• They perform two types of sacrifices to these spirits or
demons. One is to praise them while the other is to appease
what they believe is an angry spirit.
• The Hurons believed that fish, deer and moose are possessed
of reason and will not feed their bones to the dogs.
7. Chapter 2: Jean de Brebeuf on the Hurons
• The Hurons engage in four feasts. The feast of farewells, the
feast of thanksgiving and gratitude, a feast for singing and
eating, and a feast for the deliverance of a sick person.
• Every twelve years they carried out the feast of the dead. The
ceremony was a mass burial in a central grave of the bones of
deceased villagers brought from the entire area of Huronia.
• Murderers, thieves, traitors and witches are all punished. The
relatives of the murdered prosecute the guilty and address the
entire village which then makes restitution in the form of gifts.
• All matters, from trades to wars, are operated with a set order.
The most common reason for war is when a nation refuses to
give satisfaction regarding a death.
• They followed a strict set of proceedings during their council
meetings.
8. Chapter 3: Diseaase and Medicine
• The native Indians were exposed to various forms of disease
with the Europeans brought with them.
• The Jesuits weren’t equipped as medical aids and were more
concerned with baptizing the ill rather than curing them.
• The Hurons believed these terrible illnesses came from natrual
and supernatural sources but didn’t try to separate them.
They believed illnesses weren’t attributed strictly to physical
problems but that body, mind, and feelings were connected.
• They believe that some illnesses can be due to the possession
of a demon. There are as many as twelve different dances
that can remedy this type of illness. The three games of
lacrosse, dish, and straw are thought to have healing powers.
• Other illnesses are believed to be cured by ceremonies.
9. Chapter 3: Disease and Medicine
• In 1637, The Huron villages suffered a devastating bout of
influenza. The Hurons believed the disease was due to the
presence of the Jesuits. When the missionaries couldn’t
explain the cause, the Hurons formulated a plan to capture
the missionaries and kill them all.
• In 1639, the Hurons faced smallpox. The amount left dead by
this epidemic was surprising to the missionaries.
• In 1666, an unidentified epidemic began making its rounds.
• At first, the shamans tried using magical cures while family
members resorted to feasts and sacrifices.
• The missionaries believed that baptizing the sick and bleeding
them would cure them of this illness.
10. Chapter 4: Diplomacy and War
• During the seventeenth century war, raids, ambushes,
captivity, and torture was very common.
• In 1645, the Mohawks established a truce with the Algonquins
and the French that last until 1647.
• In the spring of 1647, war resumed. A Huron-French
diplomatic mission to the Mohawk country was accused of
treachery and evil magic. These representatives, including
The Jesuit Isaac Jogues, were killed. Raids intot he St.
Lawrence and Ottawa valleys by the Mohawks followed.
• Among the prisoners, some were tortured and killed while the
majority of the women and children were adopted, accepted
as new family members, and integrated into the new
community of the captors.
11. Chapter 4: Diplomacy and War
• In the late 1640’s, the Hurons were attacked by some Iroquois
armies. The intent of these armies were no longer to capture
treasures and prisoners while inflicting damage on the Huron
villages. Their intent was clearly to destroy the entire nation of
Huron people.
• The Iroquois armies purchased guns from the Dutch traders at Fort
Orange. Their military practices were terrifying.
• In March of 1649, the Hurons endured a large surprise attack by the
Iroquois armies. The Iroquois destroyed two outlying villages. The
Hurons had been effected by the epidemics sweeping their villages.
• In 1649, The Huron nations collapsed. The remaining members
surrendered to the enemy and became adopted Iroquois. Others
merged with neighboring tribes. One small band of Catholicc
Hurons followed the Jesuits into Quebec City.