Please note that Jesuitical historical records in Eastern Canada begin mid-
way into the Early Beaver Wars period, so pathogenic events were present,
and larger scale warfare than pre-existed 1500. Due to pathogenic events,
towns were abandoned, along with corn harvests. Due to pathogenic events,
towns were repopulated by forcible incorporation of other towns (Laurentine
Iroquois, Huron, Neutral, ...), all at the "expense" of the areas of Jesuitical
presence and records. Hence during the period of Jesuitical records, Native
"New France" was under enormous military and negative demographic pressure,
which lead to the reduced use of settlements, and the abandonment of stored
(centralized) corn, as well as the systematic destruction of pre-harvest corn
to induce incorporations.
-- Kitakitamatsinopowaw (I'll see you again, in Siksika) -- Eric Brunner ..and the resulting Requeriminto was even read to trees, which opens whole new vistas on the origins of European ecological thinking...