Distant Relations: The Jesuits in New France
- Book Title:
- Savages, Romans, and Despots: Thinking about Others from Montaigne to Herder
- Format:
- Book Chapter
- Year:
- 2018
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- Place published:
- Chicago
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- Abstract:
For much of the seventeenth century, the Jesuits enjoyed monopoly over missions in New France, the French possessions in Canada, particularly Quebec. They published an annual series of Jesuit Relations, accounts of Native Americans and their attempts to convert them. Notably, Paul Le Jeune, the first superior, published an account of an expedition accompanying a hunting band of Montagnais (Innu). Other detailed accounts include Jean de Brebeuf’s mission to the Huron (Wendat). In the eighteenth century, Lafitau published a treatise comparing “American Savages”, particularly the Iroquois among whom he had worked, to Ancient Greeks and Romans, suggesting that the matrilineal Iroquois were actually descendants of the Lycians described by Herodotus.
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- Page Range:
- 84-105
- ISBN:
- 978022657542197802265752549780226575391
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