How Did The Europeans Celebrate The Montagnais?

During the period of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the world was undergoing a key component of history, the age of exploration. The age of exploration marked the beginning of a globalizing world, and emerged as a key component of European culture during this time. Many lands that were previously unknown to the Europeans were discovered, though many of these lands were already inhabited by those indigenous to the nations. European missionaries and traders sought to accommodate themselves and their practices to the non-Europeans to the expectancies of Asian and Indigenous societies throughout this age. In this essay I intend to compare religious and mercantile encounters, to outline how Europeans worked to accommodate themselves
Initially the Europeans had a similar strategy to convert the Indigenous in North America as those in Asia, by learning the culture and language. Alternatively, the Europeans made an attempt to settle the Montagnais by establishing hospitals and seminaries to proselytize the Indigenous children. Unlike Asians societies the Indigenous were a more nomadic people, the Jesuits found they need to establish settlements in order to convert these peoples. The Jesuits in North America intended to leverage authority over the Montagnais to convert them which was dissimilar to what was described in the relation between the Confucian scholars and missionaries in China. The initial accommodation of the Montagnais transformed as time passed and the Jesuits had not managed to convert the Indigenous of New France. The accommodation distorted into condemnation of the Montagnais, the Jesuits adopted a harsh means of preaching through fear. The Europeans turned to hell fire preaching to overturn the Montagnais practicing their customs deemed to go against God’s grace. In short, the Europeans saw the Indigenous of North America as barbarous in terms of their primitive customs and religion. So, though the Europeans were initially accommodating of the Indigenous, once a relationship was built the strategies of accommodation shifted to an air of superiority amongst the Europeans towards the