| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 94.1

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Book Review

Why Have You Come Here? The Jesuits and the First Evangelization of Native America. By Nicholas P. Cushner. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. xiv, 255 pp. Cloth, $74.00, ISBN 978-0-19-530756-6. Paper, $29.95, ISBN 978-0-19-530801-3.)

This is not another tirade against the usual suspects—the greedy conquerors and their political commissaries, that is, the missionaries—pitted against a primitive and uniformly shaped Indian world. First of all, Why Have You Come Here? describes the Indians as diverse and multifaceted peoples (though they share some common elements) and as human beings. Secondly, the examination of contact as experienced in five Jesuit frontier outposts—Florida (1567–1572), Sinaloa in Mexico (1594–1615), Julí in Peru (1576–1767), the Guaraní reductions in Paraguay (1625–1768), and Huronia in Canada (1634–1650)—is balanced and unbiased.

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