From 1634 to 1639, the Jesuits were, by many accounts, “successful” in their goals of instructing and converting the Huron people. Though they encouraged the Huron to adapt to their patriarchal society in terms of religion and leadership/government, they must have been conscious of the disparity between the all-male Jesuit culture and the culture of the Huron that, in many ways, valued women to a higher degree; perhaps, like scholars today, the Jesuits perceived these differences as a reason to resist conversion. Huron men might not have had as much reason to resist conversion, but for women, if converting meant sacrificing one’s societal status for a more muted, subservient role, then they would have had good reason to resist against Jesuit
