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Through the use of documents taken from the past, historians can assess the people, culture and ways of life of those times. The document entitled The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents, written by Jean De Brebeuf, is filled with information regarding the Jesuits encounter with Canada’s aboriginal society. Based on Jean De Brebeufs encounters, it is evident that this document is broken down into three main areas. He describes the beliefs, morals and customs, as well as the ways of life of a people previously unknown to the Europeans. This document is very useful to historians in gaining information, however it cannot be used solely as a means of gaining insight to Jesuit-native relations. In his thesis, Jean De Brebeuf immediately lays out the purpose of the Jesuit mission and depicts the native people as being inferior, with no choice, but to fully abide to the Europeans and their ideas. All this serves to gain their affections, and to render them more docile when we introduce the admirable and incomprehensible mysteries of our Faith; for the belief they have in our intelligence and capacity causes them to accept without reply what we say to them. This document is written