The Jesuit relations and allied documents

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The Jesuit Relations, also known as Relations des Jésuites de la Nouvelle-France (Relation de ce qui s'est passé [...]), are chronicles of the Jesuit missions in New France. The works were written annually and printed beginning in 1632 and ending in 1673. Originally written in French, Latin, and Italian, The Jesuit Relations were reports from Jesuit missionaries in the field to their superiors to update them on the missionaries' progress in the conversion of various Indigenous North American tribes, including the Huron, Montagnais, Miꞌkmaq, Mohawk, and Algonquins. Constructed as narratives, the original reports of the Jesuit missionaries were subsequently transcribed and altered several times before their publication, first by the Jesuit overseer in New France and then by the Jesuits' governing body in France. The Jesuits began to shape the Relations for the general public to attract new settlers to the colony and to raise enough capital and political support to continue the missions in New France. The Relations are integral to the historiography of the Jesuits of New France. Recent scholarship illuminates how those documents may have been recirculated to Jesuit colleges in New France, which changes how one can understand their ethnographic and knowledge-producing value. Despite those reservations, The Jesuit Relations remain a valuable source of information about the Indigenous societies during the French colonization of North America during the 17th century. Overall, these texts serve as microcosms of Indigenous-European relations in North America.

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