The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents: Travels and Explorations of the Jesuit Missionaries in New France, 1610-1791, Vol. IX, Quebec: 1636

The Jesuit Relations (Relations des Jésuites de la Nouvelle-France) are chronicles of the Jesuit missions in New France. These works were written annually and published from 1632 to 1673. Written as reports for their Order and to help raise funds for the mission, Relations were so thorough in describing the First Nations and their cultures that these reports are considered some of the earliest ethnographic documents. Ruben Gold Thwaites, secretary of the Wisconsin Historical Society, was the first to spearhead a project to translate, unify, and cross-reference numerous original Relationships. Ruben Gold Thwaites and his collaborators, between 1896 and 1901, compiled 73 volumes, including two volumes of indexes. Relationships actually constitute a great deal of ethnographic material. He included many other documents, rare manuscripts, and letters from the archives of the Society of Jesus, spanning the period from the founding of the order up to 1791. This book is the 9th volume of the entire series.