1. Search for Souls: Missionaries & Priests
Michigan History 3-2
Inner circle/Outer circle – Describe a movie by plot.
Writing prompt – Is what the missionaries did right?

2. Being a French Missionary
Missionaries – People who left their native country to live in another for the purpose of converting the natives
Most populous group – Jesuits
Lived with the American Indians
Adapted to some of their cultures
Tried to convert them to Christianity
Main purpose:
Bring more people to the Church
Salvation of those who hadn’t yet heard the word

3. Missionaries
Fathers Jogues and Raymbault – Worked with the Huron in what is today Ontario
Eventually killed by the Iroquois
Father Menard – Worked with escaped Huron in western Lake Superior area
Got separated one day, never heard from again
Father Allouez – Looked for Menard in Upper Peninsula
Ends up finding copper and the Mississippi River
Allouez is buried in Niles, no harsh end for him

4. Father Marquette 1668 – Settles Sault Ste. Marie
Today, the oldest permanent European settlement in Michigan
Works at a Mission in St. Ignace
Hears from the Natives about a body of water they call “Mesippi”
Received permission from the French government to explore it

5. Marquette, Jolliet, and the Mississippi River
1673 – Father Marquette, Louis Jolliet, and five others leave St. Ignace
Local Indians warn them of monsters and people who do not receive strangers
Went away because they were willing to die to help others convert
Never found angry Natives
Were worried that they would run into the Spanish
On the return, Marquette develops dysentery and dies near Ludington
Louis Jolliet loses all his notes when his canoe tipped over