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The Huron Carol is the first Canadian Christmas Carol but the version we are most familiar with isn't the one that would have been sung by the early Wendat Christian. The original version written by Jean de Brébeuf has a much stronger connection to the Indigenous people he worked with, and when we listen to that version, we can hear not just a Christmas story, but an attempt to bridge two very different ways of understanding the world.

1927 Version (the familiar hymn)

Jean de Brebeuf's lyrics in English

Jean de Brebeuf lyrics in Wendat/Wyendot

Mi'kmaw Version


Sources:

Sanborn, Raymond Joseph. 2016. In Search of the Huron Carol (Jesous Ahatonnia): Canada’s First Christmas Carol. Doctoral thesis, Graduate Theological Foundation. epe.lac-bac.gc.c


Steckley, John. 2014. “Huron Carol: a Canadian cultural chameleon.” British Journal of Canadian Studies 27, no. 1 (2014): 55–74. Jesuit Online Bibliography


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