Based on the movie, I felt that each group had their own distinct motives and beliefs, however until the end only the Jesuits and the Algonquin groups changed the most. In the beginning their relationship was based solely off job and reward, meaning that the Jesuits (Father Paul and Daniel’s) purpose was to convert as many natives that they can and travel to the Huron tribe. Whereas the Algonquin tribes’ goal was to receive the goods (Tobacco and other trinkets). As the two groups travel they eventually meet the Montagnais, who didn’t get a lot of screen time, but the shaman was introduced and throughout the movie he made it known that he thinks that Father Paul Is a demon. So, if I were to go off based on the shaman, I think that the Montagnais …show more content…
didn’t really approve of Father Paul. However, once the movie progressed, the Algonquin and the Jesuit groups opinions changed about one another. The Jesuits and the Algonquins learned to a certain degree, how to respect on another and later helped each other escape the Iroquois. The Iroquois are revealed to be highly dangerous, by cutting off Father Paul’s finger and killing Chomina’s son. After the remaining group escaped, Father Paul decided to finish his journey to the Huron village, where there is a smallpox outbreak. Even though the Hurons didn’t have a lot of screen time, they were shown to be able to make rational decisions to save their own, by deciding to be baptized to save their loved ones. I found the movie to portray the difference gap between the European and Native American cultures interestingly, because the thought process of each group sounded believable and I personally found it to be humorous. As Daniel and Father Paul are given the task to join the Algonquin in their travels, with the goal to ultimately advance in converting the Natives to their religion. Throughout the movie, it is shown that there are many differences primarily with Father Paul and really all the Natives. In Father Paul’s opinion, he thinks that the Natives are unintelligent, narrow-minded, and are savages. However, on the opinionated side of the Natives, they think that Father Paul is the one who is unintelligent and savage like. When viewing moments like these, it shows that both parties are truly not connecting with each other due to their own believes and customs on how they live. In addition, one example that I observed that felt important was the new world knowledge, such as writing, that was brought up by Father Paul to the Natives was believed to be the work of a demon, which caused the relationship between the two groups to lower. It showed that the advanced knowledge that can’t be comprehended by the Natives are immediately shunned, which doesn’t give the future of conversion a bright look. In the movie the Jesuits where using the offerings of tobacco and silver to bribe the natives into taking them to the Huron tribe, where a fellow member Jesuits reside, trying to convert the Hurons.
However, as the movie progresses it is shown that one of the main reasons that the Algonquin tribe is helping Father Paul and Daniel is because in return they’ll receive tobacco, which they made it clear is very valuable. One example, is when Father Paul was talking about tobacco with the chief and some of his men, stating that once they pass away into paradise “Heaven”, they will no longer need trivial things like such. By hearing this the Chief and his men looked confused, as to why would they ever want to give up on such things that they find valuable. Also, it should be noted that as more time was spent between the Algonquin and Jesuits, the Algonquin was starting to get uncomfortable and frequently thinking about leaving, mainly because of Father Paul and his activities. The natives believed that Father Paul was a demon, due to his new world knowledge and his actions related to his belief. Yet, the only reason that the natives accompanied Father Paul for so long was because of the trinkets that they’ll receive. Towards the end of the movie, the characters were kidnapped by the Iroquois tribe, which was a ruthless tribe that ended up killing and injuring most of the captured travelers. What makes this significant is the conversation that Iroquois chief and his subordinated where contemplating on trading the two Jesuits with Champlain in return for guns. So, with the bribery of goods and potential payment of weapons, the natives from both tribes where able to make decisions that where able to help them
out. Throughout the movie there wasn’t truly introduced until the Father Paul himself arrived at the near empty village of the Hurons. Before he arrived at his destination, there was a belief that he was to join and help the other Fathers that lives with the Hurons. However, as he arrives to the church building, it was empty with one of the Fathers’ on the floor dead in a horrible fashion. As Father Paul proceeds further, he finds Father Bourque lying in bed in a weak condition. Once the two are conversating over the meal, it is revealed that once the two Fathers’ arrived at the tribe in plans to convert the natives to Christianity, a deadly disease (small pox) started to spread among the natives. Since the disease wasn’t in the tribe until the Jesuits arrived, the two Fathers’ were immediately accused and received backlash from the many natives, with dead family members. At this point in the movie, it seemed as the plan to convert anybody from any tribe was a failure. Although, it was Father Paul in the end who was able to give the Huron natives hope in Christ, so that there love ones may be healed. So, it is without a doubt unfortunate that the natives where introduced to small pox, Father Paul was able to complete the task, convert the Huron tribe and help the natives the best way he can.
`Black Robe" tells the story of the first contacts between the Huron Indians of Quebec and the Jesuit missionaries from France who came to convert them to Catholicism, and ended up delivering them into the hands of their enemies. Those first brave Jesuit priests did not realize, in the mid-17th century, that they were pawns of colonialism, of course; they were driven by a burning faith and an absolute conviction that they were doing the right thing. Only much later was it apparent that the European settlement of North America led to the destruction of the original inhabitants, not their salvation.
Before diving into the connections between the book and class, it is important to understand some background information about the Huron. Research shows that the group was originally formed by hunter-gatherers who had inhabited the region for a long time (2).
In Jamestown, the settlers had to deal with the Powhatan Indians. The relationships with them were unstable. John Smith, whom was the leader of Jamestown, was captured by these Indians while he was on a little trip with some of his men. As he left two of his men, he came back to find them dead and himself surrounded by two hundred members of the tribe, finding himself being captured. “Six or seven weeks those barbarians kept him prisoner…” 87). After this event, the relationship only grew worse and there was constant fighting between the settlers and Indians. The Indians practiced many methods in capturing settlers such as “scalping” and other dreadful techniques. The settlers did many negative practices also which is the reason they fought so many wars and battles against each other. Later on, the Indians killed the English for their weapons that were rare to them. In contrast to the Plymouth colony, these settlers dealt with the Pequot Indians and the relations were much more peaceful for a certain time frame. At one point, one Indian was brave enough to approach them and spoke to them (in broken English). He taught them the ways of the land, and developed a peace with the man. The settlers from the Plymouth colony learned many ways to grow food from these Indians. “He directed them how to set their corn, where to take fish and to procure other commodities, and was also their
As the relationship grew between the French and Iroquois, Jesuit missionaries would be allowed within their camps thus picking up European lifestyle. The Iroquois would exploit the French’s need for more fur to gain more in trade rather than just trade with English colonists. However, because of the relationship the French had with the Huron, the Iroquois would eventually side with the English, thus resulting in the French and Indian War. With the help of the Iroquois the British would later help defeat and drive out the French from their colonies by
The History of the Metis The Metis were partly french and partly indian. Their leader was called Louis riel. Following the Union of the Hudson's Bay Company and the North West Company in 1821, trading had been reorganized in order to reduce expenses. Since there was no longer competition in the fur trade, it was unnecessary to have two or more posts serving a single trading district.
The Iroquois tribe was part of an alliance with five other tribes throughout New York that banded together against enemies, talked about land, and traded with each other. These peaceful people operated in a democracy, one of the first seen in the early world. Much is known about these tribes due to the missionaries which were sent out in the 1600’s. The Jesuits, an order of the Catholic Church devoted to teaching, spent the time to move out into the unknown world, live with these people, and teach them the ways of Catholicism. In doing this, they documented everything they saw and provided accurate accounts of the building of these structures.
Some more specific examples of how their lives were transformed include the Native’s new dependence to the Europeans for items such as rifles, kettles, tobacco, and many other goods, the European’s desire to convert the Natives, and the way that Native American warfare was transformed forever. Due to the European’s strong desire to obtain animal pelts and other goods, they were more than willing to trade rifles and commonplace kettles to the Natives in return for their help in acquiring these pelts. These goods that the Natives received transformed their life, but not entirely for the better. Prior to this engagement, they were an autonomous society that lived from the land. With the introduction of European goods, there was more and more dependency on these goods which, in the end, led to events such as King Philip’s War and the deterioration of the Native American way of life. An example of this dependency can be seen from Chomina during their time as Iroquois prisoners. He tells Laforgue, “It is you Normans, not the Iroquois, who have destroyed me, you with your greed, you who do not share what you have, who offer presents of muskets and cloth and knives to make us greedy as you are. And I have become as you, greedy for things. And that is why I am here and why we will die together” (BR, 165). These gifts of guns as well as the English and French seeking
This paper addresses the results of interviews, observations, and research of life in the Ottawa tribe, how they see themselves and others in society and in the tribe. I mainly focused on The Little River Band of Ottawa Indian tribe. I researched their languages, pecking order, and interviewed to discover the rituals, and traditions that they believe in. In this essay I revealed how they see themselves in society. How they see other people, how they see each other, what their values were, what a typical day was etc. I initially suspected that I would have got different responses from these questions but in reality the results in the questions were almost completely the same. I studied this topic because mostly all the people that are close to me are associated in the Ottawa tribe. I additionally love the Native American culture, I feel it is beautiful and has a free concept.
The Spanish and English cultures were scarcely similar and notably different because of the interaction with indigenous people and the timing in which the interactions occurred. The Spanish and English were very different in how they interacted with the indigenous people. The Spanish main reason for coming to North America was to spread Catholicism. In the Catholic church if two people were both Catholic then the two people would receive the sacrament of marriage. After marriage the two would create a Catholic of their own. This had created 5 new races of people. The races of humanity was then looked at as social classes. The highest social class was a full white European, then a mestizos, which was a someone who was European and an Indian, followed by Indians, African slaves, and lastly a Zambos,
There were many things that shaped this community to where they are today, especially their separation from the Pequot tribe. The Moh...
Pequot tribe is a Native American nation in Connecticut State which is federally recognized by the United States government. It was recognized in 1983 by the congress and is considered to be the eighth tribe to be recognized by the United States government through congressional procedure. There are different views regarding Pequot tribe based on its past history and the tribe’s present activities. This paper deals in discussing views of various sources regarding the Pequot tribe and compares various present findings of the tribe in modern society.
The Black Legend and White Legend: Relationship Between the Spanish and Indians in the New World
Considering historical evidence, the notion: Native –Americans was not the first inhabitant of America is a complete false. For centuries, history kept accurate and vivid accounts of the first set of people who domiciled the western hemisphere. Judging by those records, below are the first set of Native-American people who inhabited America before the arrival of another human race; the Iroquois: The Iroquois of Native Americans was one of the tribes that lived in America before other people came. Based on historical evidence, it is believed that the Native Americans came from Asia way back during the Ice Age through a land bridge of the Bering Strait. When the Europeans first set foot in America, there were about 10 million Native Americans
The Society of Jesus was founded by Ignatius Loyola in 1540, created as a military organization dedicated to missionary work across countries, the members of the association are identified as the Jesuits, they soon became known as being able to interweave the beliefs of Christianity with the customs of the local inhabitants (Bumsted, 2011). Between the years of 1632 to 1670 roughly a hundred Jesuit missionaries were sent to New France in an attempt to learn the Native languages, culture, and assimilate the local populace to European culture and Christianity (Welton, 2005). The integrating of the Jesuit s into the everyday lives of the Native peoples created more issues and hardship for the inhabitants than it did benefits. The Jesuits brought many foreign diseases to a group of people that were not accustomed to European illness like smallpox and measles. The Jesuits were also known as the “black robes”, they were known to bring sickness into most tribes they encountered. The mass epidemic of the disease ultimately leads to the down-fall of the Huron people; it lessened their numbers and made them vulnerable to attacks from the Iroquois. Lastly, the ultimate goal ofthe Jesuits was to assimilate and convert the First Nation peoples to Christianity which led to a massive erosion of culture and heritage within the tribes. The introduction of Catholicism and European values eradicated many traditional customs of the First Nation; such as the religious view of Animism, the role of females within the tribe, introduced a European educational curriculum, and illustrated a new understanding of life and death. The Jesuits were unsuccessful in their attempt to improve the lives of the First Nation inhabitants, for the reason that they brought a number of devastating diseases, aided in the down-fall of Huron people, and eroded traditional heritage
Native American Relations During the numerous years of colonization, the relationship between the English settlers and the Native Americans of the area was usually the same. Native Americans would initially consider the settlers to be allies, then as time passed, they would be engaged in wars with them in a struggle for control of the land. This process of friendship to enemies seemed to be the basic pattern in the majority of the colonies. When the English landed in Jamestown in 1607, the dominant tribe of the area was the Powhatan (which the English settlers named after the leader of the tribe, Powhatan).