The Jesuits in North America in the Seventeenth Century

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Few passages of history are more striking than those which record the efforts of the earlier French Jesuits to convert the Indians. Full as they are of dramatic and philosophic interest, bearing strongly on the political destinies of America, and closely involved with the history of its native population, it is wonderful that they have been left so long in obscurity. While the infant colonies of England still clung feebly to the shores of the Atlantic, events deeply ominous to their future were in progress, unknown to them, in the very heart of the continent. It will be seen, in the sequel of this volume, that civil and religious liberty found strange allies in this Western World. Read more...

• Preface
• Introduction
  • Native Tribes
    • The Algonquins
    • The Huron
      • Their Houses
      • Fortifications
      • Habits
      • Arts
      • Women
      • Trade
      • Festivities
      • Medicine
    • The Huron-Iroquois Family
      • The Tobacco Nation
      • The Neutrals
      • The Erie
      • The Andaste
      • The Iroquois
    • Social and Political Organization
    • Iroquois Institutions, Customs, and Character
    • Indian Religion and Superstitions
    • The Indian Mind
• Chapter I - 1634
  • Notre-Dame Des Anges
• Chapter II
  • Loyola and the Jesuits
• Chapter III - 1632, 1633
  • Paul Le Jeune
• Chapter IV - 1633, 1634
  • Le Jeune and the Hunters
• Chapter V - 1633, 1634
  • The Huron Mission
• Chapter VI - 1634, 1635
  • Brébeuf and his Associates
• Chapter VII - 1636, 1637
  • The Feast of the Dead
• Chapter VIII - 1636, 1637
  • The Huron and the Jesuit
• Chapter IX - 1637
  • Character Of The Canadian Jesuits
• Chapter X - 1637-1640
  • Persecution
• Chapter XI - 1638 - 1640
  • Priest and Pagan
• Chapter XII - 1639, 1640
  • The Tobacco Nation, The Neutrals
• Chapter XIII - 1636 - 2646
  • Quebec and Its Tenants
• Chapter XIV
  • Devotees and Nuns - 1636 - 1652
• Chapter XV
  • Villemarie De Montreal
• Chapter XVI - 1641 - 1644
  • Isaac Jogues
• Chapter XVII - 1641 - 1646
  • The Iroquois, Bressani, De Nouë
• Chapter XVIII - 1642 - 1644
  • Vallemarie
• Chapter XIX - 1644 - 1645
  • Peace
• Chapter XX - 1645 - 1646
  • The Peace Broken
• Chapter XXI - 1646, 1647
  • Another War
• Chapter XXII - 1645 - 1651
  • Priests and Puritan
• Chapter XXIII - 1645 - 1648
  • A Doomed Nation
• Chapter XXIV - 1645 - 1648
  • The Huron Church
• Chapter XXV - 1648, 1649
  • Sainte Marie
• Chapter XXVI - 1548
  • Antoine Daniel
• Chapter XVII - 1649
  • Ruin of the Huron
• Chapter XXVIII - 1649
  • The Martyrs
• Chapter XXIX - 1649, 1650
  • The Sanctuary
• Chapter XXX - 1649
  • Garnier and Chabanel
• Chapter XXXI - 1650 - 1652
  • The Huron Mission Abandoned
• Chapter XXXII - 1650 - 1866
  • The Last of the Huron
• Chapter XXXIII - 1650 - 1670
  • The Destroyers
• Chapter XXXIV
  • The End

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The Jesuits in North America in the Seventeenth Century, 1867

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