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EARLY JESUITS OF MICHIGAN.

The arm of French power had not yet taught the savages the sacred character of the ''black-coats, " as the Jesuits were called, to distinguish them from the Recollects, or the "grey-coats. " The medicine men of the Indians, feeling that their craft was in danger, spared no opportunity to arouse against them savage hate. Misfortune, sickness and death were all charged upon them as the fruit of their
 
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