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A Question of Conscience: The Murder of the Jesuit Priests in El Salvador. Ed. Marcelo Navarro. Narr. Pam Cruz. First Run Features Home Video, 1990.

Altherr, Thomas L. "'Flesh is the Paradise of a Man of Flesh': Cultural Conflict over Indian Hunting Beliefs and Rituals in New France as Recorded in the Jesuit Relations." Canadian Historical Review 64 (1983): 267-76.

An Autobiography of Martyrdom: Spiritual Writings of the Jesuits in New France. Trans. Sister M. Renelle, S.S.N.D. Sel. Francois Roustang, S.J. St. Louis: B. Herder, 1964.

Axtell, James. "Black Robe." Past Imperfect: History According to the Movies. Ed. Mark C. Carnes. New York: Holt, 1995.

Bach, Susanne. "Mary Doria Russell's The Sparrow and Brian Moore's Black Robe Explore 'Third Spaces'." Literature on the Move: Cultural Migration in Contemporary Literature. Ed. Michael Heinze. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier (WVT), 2010.

Blackburn, Carol. The Jesuit Missions and Colonialism in North America, 1632-1650. Montreal: McGill-Queens UP, 2000.

Churchill, Ward. "And They Did It Like Dogs in the Dirt . . . : An American Indian Analysis of Black Robe." Indians Are Us? Culture and Genocide in Native North America. Monroe: Common Courage P, 1994. 115-37.

Churchill, Ward. "Reasserting 'Consensus': A Somewhat Bitterly Amused Response to Kristof Haavik’s 'In Defense of Black Robe.'" American Indian Culture and Research Journal 31.4 (2007): 121-43.

The Company: Inigo and his Jesuits. Dir. Joseph D. Fenton. Narr. Cyril Cusack. First Run Features Home Video, 1991.

Crowley, Michael. "Stage And Screen: A Brian Moore Filmography." Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review 87.346 (1998): 142-44.

Dahlie, Hallvard. "Black Robe: Moore's 'Conradian' Tale and the Quest for the Self." Irish University Review 18.1 (1988): 88-95.

Ditmann, Laurent. "Découvrir Ou Recouvrir Le Nouveau Monde? Ecriture Cinématographique Et Scarification Dans Le Black Robe De Bruce Beresford." Etudes Canadiennes/Canadian Studies: Revue Interdisciplinaire Des Etudes Canadiennes En France 36 (1994): 71-79.

Dunphy, Christine. "Stylish Canadian epic puts focus on religious debate." Rev. of Black Robe, dir. Bruce Beresford. Toronto Star 4 Oct. 1991: D18.

Ebert, Roger. Rev. of Black Robe, dir. Bruce Beresford. Chicago Sun Times 1 Nov. 1991. http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19911101/REVIEWS/111010304/1023

Fast, Robin Riley. "Resistant History: Revising the Captivity Narrative in 'Captivity' and Blackrobe: Isaac Jogues." American Indian Culture and Research Journal 23.1 (1999): 69-86.

First Peoples. http://www.nativetrail.com/en/first_peoples/index.html

Flood, Jeanne A. "Black Robe: Brian Moore's Appropriation of History." Eire-Ireland. 25.4 (1990): 40-55.

Freebury, Jane. "Black Robe: Ideological Cloak and Dagger?" Australian-Canadian Studies 10.1 (1992): 119-26.

Gallagher, Michael Paul, S.J. "Religion as Favourite Metaphor: Moore's Recent Fiction." Irish University Press 18.1 (1988): 50-59.

Gilbert, Matthew. "It's 'Dances with Wolves,' only without the dancing." Rev. of Black Robe, dir. Bruce Beresford. Boston Globe 8 Nov. 1991: 33.

Goddard, Peter A. "Converting the Savage: Jesuit and Montagnais in Seventeenth-Century New France." The Catholic Historical Review 84.2 (1988): 219-39.

Grant, John Webster. Moon of Wintertime: Missionaries and the Indians of Canada in Encounter since 1534. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 1984.

Greene, Graham. "Francis Parkman." Collected Essays. New York: Viking, 1981. 329-36.

Greer, Allan, ed. The Jesuit Relations: Natives and Missionaries in Seventeenth Century North America. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2000.

Haavik, Kristof. "In Defense of Black Robe: A Reply to Ward Churchill." American Indian Culture and Research Journal 31.4 (2007): 97-120.

Harrod, Howard L. "Missionary Life-World and Native Response: Jesuits in New France." Studies in Religion (Sciences Religieuses) 13.2 (1984): 179-93.

Hicks, Patrick. "An Interview With Brian Moore." Irish University Review: A Journal Of Irish Studies 30.2 (2000): 315-20.

Hicks, Patrick. "The Language Of The Tribes In Brian Moore's Black Robe." Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review 93.372 (2004): 415-26.

Jaenen, Cornelius J. "Amerindian Views of French Culture in the Seventeenth Century." Canadian Historical Review 55.3 (1974): 261-91.

James, Caryn. "FILM VIEW; Jesuits vs. Indians, With No Villains." Rev. of Black Robe, dir. Bruce Beresford. New York Times 17 Nov. 1991: 2.24.

Jesuit Relations. http://vc.lemoyne.edu/relations/ [Archived]

Jesuits Online. http://www.jesuit.org

Johnson, Brian D. "Epic struggles: revealing the rage when natives meet whites." Rev. of Black Robe, dir. Bruce Beresford. Maclean's 7 Oct. 1991: 72.

Kempley, Rita. "Black Robe: Dances with Realism." Rev. of Black Robe, dir. Bruce Beresford. Washington Post 8 Nov. 1991: B07.

Kilpatrick, Jacquelyn. Celluloid Indians: Native Americans and Film. Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 1999. 138-41.

Lalemant, Father Jerome. "Father Isaac Jogues Returns for the Third Time to the Country of the Hiroquois, where He Is Put to Death." The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents. Ed. Reuben Gold Thwaites. Vol. XXXI, chap. VIII. Cleveland: Burrows Brothers, 1896-1901. 109-36. http://puffin.creighton.edu/jesuit/relations/

Lalemant, Father Jerome. "How Father Isaac Jogues Was Taken by the Hiroquois, and What He Suffered on His First Entrance into Their Country." The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents. Ed. Reuben Gold Thwaites. Vol. XXXI, chap. IV. Cleveland: Burrows Brothers, 1896-1901. 16-51. http://puffin.creighton.edu/jesuit/relations/

Le Jeune, Father Paul. ""On the Means of Converting the Savages." The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents. Ed. Reuben Gold Thwaites. Vol. VI, chap. III. Cleveland: Burrows Brothers, 1896-1901. 143-55. http://puffin.creighton.edu/jesuit/relations/

Le Jeune, Father Paul. "Containing a Journal of Things Which Could not be Set Forth in the Preceding Chapters." The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents. Ed. Reuben Gold Thwaites. Vol. VII, chap. XIII. Cleveland: Burrows Brothers, 1896-1901. 65-231. http://puffin.creighton.edu/jesuit/relations/relations_07.html

Le Jeune, Father Paul. "Instructions for the Fathers of Our Society Who Shall Be Sent to the Hurons." The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents. Ed. Reuben Gold Thwaites. Vol. XII, chap. XIIII. Cleveland: Burrows Brothers, 1896-1901. 115-23. http://puffin.creighton.edu/jesuit/relations/

Le Jeune, Father Paul. "Of the Order Observed in the Seminary, and Some Particulars Relating to the Seminarists." The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents. Ed. Reuben Gold Thwaites. Vol. XII, chap. XIII. Cleveland: Burrows Brothers, 1896-1901. 59-83. http://puffin.creighton.edu/jesuit/relations/

Le Jeune, Father Paul. "Of the Sorcerers, and Whether They Have Communication with the Devil." The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents. Ed. Reuben Gold Thwaites. Vol. XII, chap. X. Cleveland: Burrows Brothers, 1896-1901. 5-22. http://puffin.creighton.edu/jesuit/relations/

Le Jeune, Father Paul. "Of Their Customs and Their Belief." The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents. Ed. Reuben Gold Thwaites. Vol. XII, chap. XI. Cleveland: Burrows Brothers, 1896-1901. 23-36. http://puffin.creighton.edu/jesuit/relations/

Le Jeune, Father Paul. "What One Must Suffer in Wintering with the Savages." The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents. Ed. Reuben Gold Thwaites. Vol. VII, chap. XII. Cleveland: Burrows Brothers, 1896-1901. 33-65. http://puffin.creighton.edu/jesuit/relations/relations_07.html

Leacock, Eleanor, and Jacqueline Goodman. "Montagnais Marriage and the Jesuits in the Seventeenth Century: Incidents from the Relations of Paul Le Jeune." Western Canadian Journal of Anthropology 6.3 (1976): 77-91.

Leahy, David. "History: Its Contradiction and Absence in Brian Moore's The Revolution Script and Black Robe." World Literature Written in English 28.2 (1988): 308-17.

Loewen, James W. Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbooks Got Wrong. New York: New Press, 1995.

McIlroy, Brian. "A Brian Moore Bibliography: 1974-1987." Irish University Review 18.1 (1988): 106-33.

Mealing, S.R., ed. The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents: A Selection. Ottawa; Carleton UP, 1985.

Moogk, Peter N. La Nouvelle France: The Making of French Canada: A Cultural History. East Lansing: Michigan State UP, 2000.

Morrison, Kenneth M. “Discourse and Accommodation of Values: Toward a Revision of Mission History.” Journal of the American Academy of Religion 53.3 (1985): 365-82.

Mota Santos, Paula. "Good Indians And Bad Indians: The European Perspective Of Native Americans As Depicted In 'The Mission' And 'Black Robe'." Native American Women in Literature and Culture. Ed. Susan Castillo and Victor M. P. Da Rosa. Porto: Fernando Pessoa UP, 1997. 185-190.

Nogueira, Claudia Barbosa. "Journeys of Redemption: Discoveries, Re-discoveries, and Cinematic Representations of the Americas." Ph.D. diss. University of Maryland, 2006. http://drum.lib.umd.edu/bitstream/1903/3372/1/umi-umd-3182.pdf

O'Donoghue, Jo. "Historical Themes, Missionary Endeavour and Spiritual Colonialism in Brian Moore's Black Robe." [Dublin] Studies 82:326 (Summer 1993): 131-39.

O'Donoghue, Jo. Brian Moore: A Critical Study. Montreal: McGill-Queen's UP, 1991.

Parkman, Francis. The Jesuits in North America in the Seventeenth Century. 1867. Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 1997.

Pevere, Geoff. "Hostiles: You Don't Win Genies for Telling the Truth." Canadian Forum November (1992): 35-37.

Principe, Charles. "A Moral Portrait of the Indian of the St. Lawrence in One Relation of New France, Written by Paul Le Jeune, S.J." Canadian Catholic Historical Association, Historical Studies 57 (1990): 29-50.

Ragueneau, Father Paul. "Of the death of Father Noel Chabanel." The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents. Ed. Reuben Gold Thwaites. Vol. LXXIV, chap. IV. Cleveland: Burrows Brothers, 1896-1901. 145-60. http://puffin.creighton.edu/jesuit/relations/

Regnaut, Christophe. ""A Veritable Account of the Martyrdom and Blessed Death of Father Jean de Breboeuf and of Father Gabriel L'Alemant, In New France, in the Country of the Hurons, by the Iroquois, Enemies of the Faith." The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents. Ed. Reuben Gold Thwaites. Vol. XXXIV, Document LXIX. Cleveland: Burrows Brothers, 1896-1901. 23-37. http://puffin.creighton.edu/jesuit/relations/

Richter, Daniel. "War and Culture: The Iroquois Experience." William and Mary Quarterly 40 (1983): 528-59.

Rollins, Peter C. The Columbia Companion to American History on Film: How the Movies Have Portrayed the American Past. New York: Columbia UP, 2003.

Ronda, James P. "The European Indian: Jesuit Civilization Planning in New France." Church History 31 (1972): 385-95.

Ronda, James P. "'We are well as we are': An Indian Critique of Seventeenth-Century Christian Missions." William and Mary Quarterly 34.1 (1977): 66-82.

Ronda, James P. "The Sillery Experiment: A Jesuit-Indian Village in New France, 1637-1663." American Indian Cultures and Research Journal 3.1 (1979): 1-18.

Rozen, Leah. Rev. of Black Robe, dir. Bruce Beresford. People Weekly 18 Nov. 1991: 22.

Santos, Paula Mota. "Good Indians and Bad Indians: The European Perspective of Native Americans as Depicted in 'The Mission' and 'Black Robe.'" Native American Women in Literature and Culture. Ed. Susan Castillo and Victor M.P. Da Rosa. Porto: Fernando Pessoa University Press, 1997.

Schickel, Richard. Rev. of Black Robe, dir. Bruce Beresford. Time 30 Dec. 1991: 71.

Silet, Charles L. P. "Bruce Beresford." Film Reference. http://www.filmreference.com/Directors-Be-Bu/Beresford-Bruce.html

Simon, John. Rev. of Black Robe, dir. Bruce Beresford. National Review 3 Feb. 1992: 48.

Strickler, Jeff. "Historical film 'Black Robe' deja vu all over again." Rev. of Black Robe, dir. Bruce Beresford. Minneapolis Star Tribune 25 Nov. 1991: Variety; 7E.

Sullivan, Robert. "Brian Moore (1921-1999)." British Writers: Supplement IX. New York: Scribner's, 2004. 141-55.

Taylor, Monique. "'This is our dwelling': The Landscape Experience of the Jesuit Missionaries to the Huron, 1620-1650." Journal of Canadian Studies 33.2 (1998): 85-96.

Thwaites, Reuben Gold, ed. The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents: Travels and Explorations of the Jesuit Missionaries in New France, 1610-1791. Vol. I-LXXIII. Cleveland: Burrows Bros., 1896-1901. http://puffin.creighton.edu/jesuit/relations/

Trudel, Marcel. Introduction to New France. Toronto: Hart, Rinehart and Winston, 1968.

Turan, Kenneth. "An intelligent epic of clashing cultures." Rev. of Black Robe, dir. Bruce Beresford. Los Angeles Times 6 Nov. 1991: F1.

Walsh, Michael, ed. Butler's Lives of the Saints. San Francisco: HarperCollins, 1991.

Wyandot Nation of Kansas Website. http://www.wyandot.org