Huron Jesuits Europeans
The Jesuits and The Fall Of The Huron
Canadian History
The Huron Indians benefited in many different ways including physically, intellectually, and spiritually thanks to their relationship with the Jesuits. However the Iroquois obliterated the Huron Indians in the 1650's and many people believe the Jesuits may have been to fault for the demise of the Hurons. There are many different factors of the demise of the Hurons including new diseases,
Many Europeans came to Canada in the late seventeenth century and as a result they brought many new diseases with them which the natives had no cures for. One archaeologist who had studied the Huron said that “ The Greatest impact that the Europeans had on the Indians at the time were the epidemics they introduced which destroyed fifty percent or more of the native population of eastern North American.” (Bruce Trigger, The Indians and the Heroic age of New France) The fur traders from France enjoyed trading with the Huron and as a result, the contact with the Europeans mean that the Hurons had a chance to catch the diseases the Europeans had carried over seas. For this reasons many other tribes also had devastating population losses. Even if the Jesuits did have something to do with the Hurons catching dieses it would only have been a matter of time before the Hurons would have caught it from other tribes.
Many of the Hurons benefited by the Jesuits being there around the time of their sickness because the Jesuits had knowledge about what to do when they were sick. Although the Jesuits did not always know what they could do to help they did what they could and they would often put their own health in danger. The Jesuits did not know a lot about the dieses and were shocked to see something that could kill so many people so quickly. Some of the Hurons even that the Jesuits had to be to blame because so many of the people that the Hurons would baptize would die right after their baptism. This was because the Hurons that the Jesuits would baptize were often already on their deathbed. (Jean de Brebeuf SJ Huron Relations) Because of this many Hurons felt that baptism would give up many of their cultural practices so many Hurons decided not to be baptized which caused trouble for the Jesuits who tried to convert as many Hurons as they could so they would send their souls to Heaven.
The Iroquois quickly got jealous that the Hurons were trading with the French and there anger had
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