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Exploration of the Americas
A 1722 letter from a French Jesuit Missionary about his experience living among the Abnaki people in eastern Canada.

A 1722 letter from a French Jesuit Missionary about his experience living among the Abnaki people in eastern Canada.

Citation Information
Kip, William Ingraham, excerpt from “The early Jesuit missions in North America,” Digital Public Library of America, https://dp.la/item/add36cdf1f185c62e6a22dc50638ad5d.
Note: These citations are programmatically generated and may be incomplete.
Courtesy of University of California via HathiTrust.

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Item 9 of 12 in the Primary Source Set Exploration of the Americas

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An excerpt from Bartolomé de Las Casas’s 1542 account of Spanish conquest of native peoples of the Americas (in Spanish).
A 1791 illustration of Bartolomé de Las Casas.
An 1866 illustration of early Spanish colonization in the Caribbean islands.
A 1910 photograph of a man infected with variola, also known as smallpox.
A modern photograph of a Spanish mission in Santa Barbara, California.
A late-nineteenth-century photograph of a recreation by Pamunkey Indians of Pocahontas saving the life of John Smith.
1920s photograph recreating the interactions between newly arrived Pilgrims and native people in Plymouth, Massachusetts.
Nineteenth-century slave shackles.
A 1722 letter from a French Jesuit Missionary about his experience living among the Abnaki people in eastern Canada.
A 1902 illustration of an early French fur trapper in Canada.
A 1630 map of the Americas including settlements and Native populations.
A 1596 map of the Americas featuring illustrations of four prominent explorers.

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