Primary Sources

Le Mercier, François Joseph. (1604-1690) Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents. Vol. 41.
        Thwaites, Reuben Gold, ed. Cleveland, OH: Burrows Brothers, 1901.
        University of Texas at Austin Lib. Data Base. 24 April. 2009

It tells about a General Council for Peace with the Four Iroquois Nations and how suspicious the
French were when the Iroquois proposed peace. It's interesting how the missionary describes the
gifts given by the Iroquois and how the French respond to them.
 

Lescarbot, Marc. (1565(?)-1629(?)) Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents. Vol. 1. Thwaites,
        Reuben Gold, ed. Cleveland, OH: Burrows Brothers, 1901. University of Texas at Austin
        Lib. Data Base. 24 April. 2009

In this work, the missionary describes some Indian customs, values, foods and ceremonies. It is
going to be very useful in which it describes a Jesuit's view of the Natives.
 

Moquin, Wayne and Charles Van Doren, eds. “Speech in Behalf of the Six Nations, to
        Pennsylvania Officals, July 7, 1742.” Great Documents in American Indian History. New
        York, Praeger Publishers: 1973.

It gives a clear image of the poverty in which Natives were living and how land treaties were
unfair with them.
 

                    Secondary Sources

Blick, Jeffrey P. “The Iroquois practice of genocidal warfare (1534–1787). Journal of Genocide
        Research. Nov2001, Vol. 3 Issue 3, pp.405-429. Master FILEPremier. EBSCO. Austin
        Community Coll. Lib, Austin, TX. 30 April. 2009 http://search.ebscohost.com/

In this article, the author proves how the European contact provoked an increase in the Iroquois
warfare and turned it into a genocidal act. It is of great value to this paper since it describes many
ways through which the Fur Trade influenced the Iroquois.

Eccles, William J. “The Fur Trade in the Colonial Northeast.” Handbook of North American
        Indians.  Vol. 4. History of Indian-White Relations. Washington: Smithsonian Institution,
        1988.

This source is of great value for those who seek for detailed historic information, which is
exposed in a very didactic way. There is a whole chapter on the Fur Trade, which will be really
helpful for this paper since there is a considerable amount of information about the role of the
Iroquois in the development of the fur trade.

Hart, William B. “‘The kindness of the blessed Virgin’: faith, succor, and the cult of Mary
        among Christian Hurons and Iroquois in seventeenth-century New France.” Spiritual
        Encounters – Interactions between Christianity and native religions in colonial America.
        Ed. Nicholas Griffiths and Fernando Cervantes. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press,
        1999.

It is a very intriguing work which points out the reality of the “conversion” of Indians to
Christianity: most of the Indians did not really convert to Christianity, but they found similarities
between Christianity and their own religions. They associated some values and beliefs from a
different culture with their own, but did not stop believing in their own beliefs; at least, not all of
them.

Snow, Dean R. The Iroquois. Cambridge: Blackwell Publishers, 1994.
        This book is great for those who look for a general view of the many aspects of the Iroquois. It
        tells about their origins, cultural characteristics, historical achievements and how they live today.
        It gives us a very realistic vision, for it presents numerical statistics, maps, pictures and
        photographs.