Godly Missionaries—or Evil Sorcerers?

Godly Missionaries—or Evil Sorcerers?

What follows is the twenty-seventh instalment of The Nations of Canada, a serialised Quillette project adapted from Greg Koabel’s ongoing podcast of the same name.In the summer of 1634, two French Jesuits—Jean de Brébeuf and Antoine Daniel—arrived in Huronia (also known as Wendake), the homeland of the Wendat Confederacy. It’s an area roughly centred on the land between Georgian Bay and Lake Simcoe in modern Ontario. These days, it serves as cot…