Allan Greer’s “Mohawk Saint: Catherine Tekakwitha and the Jesuits,” presents the story of the seventeenth-century Iroquois convert, cult-figure, and quite possibly a saint in her own right, Tekakwitha. Tekakwitha was born to an Algonquin mother and an Iroquois father and was raised in the Mohawk village of Gandaouagua. She later converted to Catholicism and adopted the name, Catherine, and relocated to a Christian Iroquois town called Kahnawake close to Montreal. Throughout his book, Greer establishes facts of Tekakwitha’s life along with archeological findings from various sources. He goes on to tell her story using texts from French manuscripts and other historical related sources with evidentiary findings. In doing so, he dives further
