black robe
“Black Robe” is a historical novel written by Brian Moore during the mid 1980’s. It is a story about Native Americans and the French Jesuit missionaries who came to convert them to Christianity in the early 16th century. Father Laforgue is a French Jesuit missionary to the Huron in Quebec. The Governor of Quebec, Champlain, convinces a group of Huron natives, by bribing them with gifts, to escort Father Laforgue and his young Frenchman named Daniel, to the Huron country near the ‘Great Falls’. Their mission is to replace a sick Jesuit Priest who is living in one of their villages. Father Laforgue, like all the French Jesuits, has traveled over to the ‘New World’ on a mission to convert as many of the Native Americans to Catholicism as possible. He believes that by converting all those that he can, he will become a martyr to his people and go directly to heaven when he dies. He also believes that these ‘savages’ are controlled by the devil, and by converting them he will be successfully saving their souls. Laforgue wants to understand the Indians in order to "save the savages' souls." But he has a severely skewed vision. The lodges the Indians build for shelter at night
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Approximate Word count = 1495
Approximate Pages = 6 (250 words per page double spaced)
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