Qualities of Indigenous people

Traces of the past:  Qualities of Indigenous people

Note: Father François Du Perron was a French priest. At the time, many Europeans spoke about Indigenous Peoples using unflattering terms. This was not the case with Father Du Perron though, as this excerpt shows.

Excerpt: 

“They all have greater intellect in their business, speech, kind deeds, encounters, flexibility and subtlety than the most well-heeled bourgeois and merchants of France.”

Author: François Du Perron cited in LACOURSIÈRE J. J. PROVENCHER and D. VAUGEOIS. Canada-Québec Synthèse historique, Éd. Renouveau Pédagogique, Ottawa, 1978, p.22.