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| Foreword | |
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| Preface | |
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| List of Maps and Illustrations | |
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| Introduction: Native North America and the French Jesuits | |
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| The Society of Jesus in Europe and Abroad | |
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| Iroquoians and Algonquians | |
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| The Colonization of New France | |
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| The Canadian Missions | |
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| The Jesuit Relations and Their Readers | |
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| Confronting the Other: The Problem of Cultural and Historical Difference | |
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| Montagnais Hunters of the Northern Woodlands | |
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| Paul Le Jeune Winters with Mestigoit's Band, 1633-1634 | |
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| Journal [of a Winter Hunt], 1634 | |
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| On Their Hunting and Fishing, 1634 | |
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| The Montagnais Described | |
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| On the Beliefs, Superstitions, and Errors of the Montagnais Indians, 1634 | |
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| On the Good Things Which Are Found among the Indians, 1634 | |
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| How to Settle Disputes and Discipline Children | |
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| What Occurred in New France in the Year 1633, 1633 | |
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| Jean de Brebeuf on the Hurons | |
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| Language | |
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| Of the Language of the Hurons, 1636 | |
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| Religion, Myth, and Ritual | |
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| What the Hurons Think about Their Origin, 1636 | |
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| That the Hurons Recognize Some Divinity; Of Their Superstitions and of Their Faith in Dreams, 1636 | |
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| Concerning Feasts, Dances ... and What They Call Ononharoia, 1636 | |
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| Law and Government | |
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| Of the Polity of the Hurons and of Their Government, 1636 | |
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| Of the Order the Hurons Observe in Their Councils, 1636 | |
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| The Huron Feast of the Dead | |
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| Of the Solemn Feast of the Dead, 1636 | |
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| Disease and Medicine | |
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| Huron Medical Practices | |
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| [Cure by Lacrosse], 1636 | |
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| [Cure by Gambling], 1639 | |
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| [Satisfying the Soul's Desires], 1639 | |
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| The Influenza Epidemic of 1637 | |
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| The Malady with Which Our Little Household Has Been Afflicted, 1637 | |
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| The Help We Have Given to the Sick of Our Village, 1637 | |
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| Ossossane Afflicted with the Contagion, 1637 | |
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| Of the Hurons Baptized This Year, 1638, 1638 | |
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| Smallpox among the Hurons, 1639 | |
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| Of the Persecutions Excited against Us, 1640 | |
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| A Medical Duel: Father Allouez and the Potawotamis | |
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| Of the Mission to the Potawotamis, 1666-1667 | |
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| Diplomacy and War | |
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| Peace Negotiations at Three Rivers, 1645 | |
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| Treaty of Peace between the French, Iroquois, and Other Nations, 1644-1645 | |
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| Iroquois Attacks on the Algonquins, 1647 | |
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| Some Iroquois Surprised after Defeating the Algonquins; A Woman Kills an Iroquois and Escapes, 1647 | |
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| The Hurons Annihilated, 1649 | |
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| Of the Capture of the Villages of the Mission of St. Ignace, in the Month of March of the Year 1649, 1648-1649 | |
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| Writings on the Natural Environment | |
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| Montagnais Explanations of a Solar Eclipse | |
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| Of Their Customs and Their Belief, 1637 | |
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| The Moral Qualities of Animals | |
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| Various Matters, 1647-1648 | |
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| Earthquakes, Comets, and Other Prophetic Signs | |
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| Three Suns and Other Aerial Phenomena Which Appeared in New France, 1662-1663 | |
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| Universal Earthquake in Canada and Its Marvelous Effects, 1662-1663 | |
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| Of the Comets and Extraordinary Signs That Have Appeared at Quebec and in Its Vicinity, 1664-1665 | |
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| Nature as a Storehouse of Resources | |
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| Of the Condition of Canada over the Last Two Years, 1666-1667 | |
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| Missions to the Iroquois | |
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| Mission to the Mohawk Country, 1667 | |
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| Of the Mission of Ste. Marie among the Mohawk Iroquois, 1667-1668 | |
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| The Mohawks Converted | |
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| Of the Mission of the Martyrs in the Country of the Mohawks, or the Lower Iroquois, 1669-1670 | |
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| The Iroquois Mission of Sault St. Louis/Kahnawake | |
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| Letter of October 14, 1682, 1682 | |
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| Martyrs and Mystics | |
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| The Ordeal of Isaac Jogues | |
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| How Father Isaac Jogues Was Taken by the Iroquois, and What He Suffered on His First Entrance into Their Country, 1647 | |
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| A Native Saint | |
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| Catherine Tegahkouita: An Iroquois Virgin, 1744 | |
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| Exploring the Mississippi | |
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| On the First Voyage by Father Marquette toward New Mexico and How the Idea Was Conceived, 1674 | |
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| Appendices | |
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| Chronology of Events Related to the Jesuit Relations (1534-1773) | |
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| Questions for Consideration | |
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| Selected Bibliography | |
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| Index | |