In 1664, French Jesuit Louis Nicolas arrived in Quebec.
Upon first hearing Ojibwe, Nicolas observed that he had encountered the most barbaric language in the world--but after listening to and studying approximately fifteen Algonquian Languages over a ten-year period, he wrote that he had "discovered all of the secrets of the most beautiful Languages in the universe." Unscripted America is a study of how colonists in North America struggled to understand, translate, and interpret.
In 1664, French Jesuit Louis Nicolas arrived in Quebec