The document summarizes sections from "The Jesuit Relations" about the Jesuit missionary work in New France (Canada) in the 1600s-1700s. It describes the indigenous peoples like the Iroquois and Algonquians, the founding of Jesuit missions, the spread of disease, tensions and wars over land between indigenous groups and European settlers, writings about the natural environment, and explorations like Jacques Marquette's voyage down the Mississippi River. Disease wiped out much of the indigenous population. Conflict increased as European settlers colonized more indigenous lands for agriculture.