Published by the Catholic publisher Sébastien Cramoisy between 1632 and 1672, the collection of the Jesuit Relations forms a first rate documentary and scriptural corpus for those who are interested in the history of the colonization of the North-American territories, but also in the institutional, doctrinal and scholarly activities of the Society of Jesus. As an object of renewed interest since the 1980s, this publication, a veritable showcase of the missionary enterprise of the Jesuits, aimed at a devout and lettered public, lends itself to a variety of approaches. It also is of interest for historians and ethno-historians as well as specialists of literature and the aesthetics of reception; as well, the collection touches on post-colonial issues in that it openly interrogates the rhetorics of otherness and the phenomena of symbolic violence that accompanied them (an approach that an number of critics, notably in the domain of cultural history, have questioned in order to privilege an “anthropology of zones of contact”). This article thus proposes to present the state of bibliographical places that reflect, in a more extensive manner, the richness of a corpus that cannot only be limited to its apologetic component.