CULTURAL READINGS: Colonization & Print in the Americas

Special Collections, University of Pennsylvania Library	Barthélémy Vimont, Relation de ce qui s'est passé en la Nouvelle France, es années 1640 et 1641. Paris: Sebastien Cramoisy, 1642. Next page
This Jesuit Relation includes a "sample of the Huron language, so that its economy and way of expression may be recognized." The sample includes a French translation underneath - a translation which suggests how Jesuits may have had to bend their spiritual message to make it conform to Huron.

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