... among them. Their kindness, humanity, and courtesy not only make them liberal with what they have, but cause them to possess hardly anything except in common. A whole village must be without corn before any individual can be obliged to endure privation. Economics of the Iroquois - Página 74por Sara Henry Stites - 1905 - 159 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Jesuits - 1899 - 340 páginas
...their barbarous training, they still possess [132] virtues which might cause shame to most Christians. No Hospitals are needed among them, because there...who come ; and the . only reproach they address to deuant qu'vn particulier foit réduit à la dif ette : Ils partagent leurs pefches en égales portions... | |
| Frederick Wilkerson Waugh - 1916 - 260 páginas
...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... | |
| Morris Wolf - 1919 - 128 páginas
...law of hospitality, hunger and destitution were entirely unknown among them."26 Le Jeune wrote that "No Hospitals are needed among them, because there...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 of... | |
| Jose Antonio Brandao - 2000 - 408 páginas
...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... | |
| James Rodger Miller - 2000 - 510 páginas
...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... | |
| James E. McWilliams - 2005 - 414 páginas
...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... | |
| John Fitzgerald Medina - 2006 - 568 páginas
...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... | |
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