Through the use of documents taken from the past, historians can assess the .
people, culture and ways of life of those times. The document entitled The Jesuit .
Relations and Allied Documents, written by Jean De Brebeuf, is filled with information .
regarding the Jesuits encounter with Canada's aboriginal society. Based on Jean De .
Brebeufs encounters, it is evident that this document is broken down into three main .
areas. He describes the beliefs, morals and customs, as well as the ways of life of a .
people previously unknown to the Europeans. This document is very useful to historians .
in gaining information, however it cannot be used solely as a means of gaining insight to .
Jesuit-native relations. .
In his thesis, Jean De Brebeuf immediately lays out the purpose of the Jesuit .
mission and depicts the native people as being inferior, with no choice, but to fully abide .
to the Europeans and their ideas. .
All this serves to gain their affections, and to render them more docile when we introduce the admirable and incomprehensible mysteries of our Faith; for the belief they have in our intelligence and capacity causes them to accept without reply what we say to them. .
This document is written from a spiritual point of view and promptly depicts the natives .
as being the inferior body amongst highly intelligent newcomers. Information regarding .
the spiritual beliefs of the native people, is greatly outlined so as to be very useful to .
historians. In detail, it describes their belief in how man was created, as well as their .
belief in the souls that exist within animals and immortal objects. These ideas greatly .
contradict the beliefs of the Jesuits who believe in God, Creator of Heaven, earth and all .
things. Although the author fully presents this information, he then uses his own beliefs .
to prove the natives wrong and unknowledgeable. "They say that this Eataensic fell from .
the sky where there are inhabitants as on earth If you ask them who made the sky and .