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1. Using the Le Clercq source, find an example of Eurocentrism in one of the passages and explain how and why it is an example of this concept . (Be sure to include the passage/s in your answers and explain how and why they are examples of the concept/s. Be sure to do this throughout the entire assignment.) An example of Eurocentrism is how Chisrtein Le Clercq forced native people into Christianity. He didn’t really think he was doing anything bad because the missionary misguided him into thinking the native people were superior to the Europeans. “While the missionaries were often misguided and believed the native peoples to be inferior to Europeans,they generally believed they were helping the Indians find what they considered the righteous path.”( History 310 Christein Le Clercq PowerPoint, Slide 1) This is an example of Eurocentrism because Le Clercq forced European culture onto natives because he thought he was guiding them to a better path. 2. Using the Le Clercq source, find an example of the cultural construction of gender in one of the passages and explain how and why it is an example of this concept . American women giving up their basic rights to be dependent on men is a cultural construction of gender because this is not a biological research, it was just a thought that women can’t think just like men do. This leads to men being a superior gender than women, and men getting paid more and earning more respect. “ For American women, the argument used to deny them their basic rights was that they are not capable of rational thought, that they must depend on men.” (History 310 Christein Le Clercq PowerPoint, Slide 3). Another reason this is a cultural construction of gender is because this varies depending on culture. Women all over the world had different roles and most of them weren’t dependent on men. 3. In your own words, explain what Le Clercq tells the reader in the first passage . Le Clercq wants to tell the readers that the “Indians” who respected the missionaries and earned themselves the title of Patriarch still managed to fail some rules. Those troublemakers were interfering and affecting the ability of the missionaries to perform and even heard some of the confessions of their own “people''.I believe that he was upset that they weren’t being civilized like the way he thought the natives were going to be. ( History 310 Christein Le Clercq PowerPoint, Slide 4) 4. What surprised Le Clercq in the second passage? Demonstrate your understanding by explaining in your own words . Le Clercq is surprised by the fact that it wasn’t just men meddling with the rules but it was also women. He believes that they are just wowed to false and ridiculous loyalty and faithfulness by making up prayers and effecting the more reserved living. He believes he is being betrayed by them for not following Christianity to its T and following their own “made up” religion. (History 310 Christein Le Clercq PowerPoint, Slide 45).

5. How does Le Clercq’s evaluation of the native people’s compare to that of Father Jean de Brebeuf’s account of the Huron people in Voices of Freedom ? Go beyond what is in the introduction. Show me you read the source by using specific examples in your answer. How are they similar? How are they different? One or two examples is not adequate . Please support your answer with direct evidence. Students must use multiple quotes from both of the sources. Le Clercq didn’t even try to understand the native people and their beliefs. He thought they were doing everything wrong by not participating in his religious rights (Christianity). Le Clercq believed the Indians were betraying him and God because they were doing their own practices. “It is a surprising fact that this ambition to act the patriarch does not only prevail among the men, but even the women meddle therewith. These, in usurping the duality and the name of Religieuses, say certain prayers in their own fashion, and affect A manner of living more reserved than that of the commonalty of Indians, who allow themselves to be dazzled by the glamour of a false and ridiculous devotion.” (HIstory 310 Christein Le Clercq PowerPoint, Slide 5) Father Jean de Brebeuf was more observant on the way the native people did things and what they believed and respected. He respected the way they live, hunt, superstitions, and although he found it weird that the husbands had to leave the wives up to three years after birth to nurse, he still respected it. Something that was interesting that I found was that both of them didn’t want to call them Natives, instead Le Clercq called them “Indians” and Father Jean de Brebeuf called them “savages”. Another example is that both of them wanted to convert natives into christianity. Both thought that christianity is the only “right” path to religion. “Seeing them, therefore, thus gathered together at the beginning of this year, we resolved to preach publicly to all, and to acquaint them with the reason our coming into their Country, which is not for their furs, but to declare to them the true God and his son, Jesus Chisrt, the universal Saviour of our souls.” ( Foner, pg. 18) “While the missionaries were often misguided and believed the native peoples to be inferior to Europeans, they generally believed they were helping the Indians find what they considered the righteous path.” ( HIstory 310 Christein Le Clercq PowerPoint, Slide 1)

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