...evidence on the subject tends to substantiate this view. In the Jesuit Relation of 1656, we read: " No hospitals are needed among them, because there...all who come; and the only reproach they address to us is our hesitation to send to them oftener for our supply of provisions." 2 In this very quotation,...

...possession of it, but under no other circumstances." 1 In one of the Relations we find it stated that they "possess hardly anything except in common. A whole...any individual can be obliged to endure privation." 2 This custom apparently had its drawbacks and sometimes proved a discouragement to industry.3 MAKING...

...possession of it, but under no other circumstances."i In one of the Relations we find it stated that they "possess hardly anything except in common. A whole...corn, before any individual can be obliged to endure privation."2 This custom apparently had its drawbacks and sometimes proved a discouragement to industry.3...

...law of hospitality, hunger and destitution were entirely unknown among them."26 Le Jeune wrote that "No Hospitals are needed among them, because there...all who come ; and the only reproach they address to us (Jesuit missionaries among the Iroquois) is our hesitation to send to them oftener for our supply...

...However, amid so many defects due to their blindness and to their barbarous training, they still possess virtues which might cause shame to most Christians....all who come; and the only reproach they address to us is our hesitation to send to them oftener for our supply of provisions.2'' 3OO One can imagine the...

...The Iroquois shared all among themselves. As Father Le Jeune wrote after his first visit among them, a “whole village must be without corn, before any...individual can be obliged to endure privation.” 3 ' Their willingness to share was extended to other groups—native and European—and continued to...

...characteristic of these societies, as the Jesuit Father Ragueneau observed: 'No hospitals [shelters] are needed among them, because there are neither mendicants...the produce of their fisheries equally with all who come.'8 Sharing and redistribution of material goods were not just admired but required; acquisitiveness...

...imposed such limitations, however, the Native Americans were quick to help one another make ends meet. "A whole village must be without corn, before any individual can be obliged to endure privation," one Frenchman observed. The rarity of these shortages spoke to the precisely calculated and wellhoned...

...Their kindness, humanity, and courtesy not only makes them liberal with what they have, but causes them to possess hardly anything except in common....corn, before any individual can be obliged to endure privation."11 Such socioeconomic arrangements and conditions were unheard of in Europe, where the people...

...concepts about property. They "possess hardly anything except in common," a French missionary concluded. "A whole village must be without corn, before any individual can be obliged to endure privation." But Iroquois economic principles only superficially resembled European concepts of communalism, for...