European diseases had taken their toll on…

European diseases had taken their toll on the Iroquois and neighbors in the years preceding the war, and their populations have drastically declined.

To replace lost warriors, the Iroquois work to integrate many of their captured enemy by adoption into their own tribes.

They work to keep their captured enemies happy.

They invite Jesuits into their territory to teach those who had converted to Christianity.

One priest records, "As far as I can divine, It is the design of the Iroquois to capture all the Huron...put the Chiefs to death...and with the rest to form one nation and country."

The Jesuits also reach out to the Iroquois, many of whom convert to or add Catholicism to indigenous belief.

They are to play an important part in the years to come.