It may not surprise you to learn that early Jesuits in Canada had ongoing debates and dialogues with Algonquian sachems and recorded some of the exchanges. And

It may not surprise you to learn that early Jesuits in Canada had ongoing debates and dialogues with Algonquian sachems and recorded some of the exchanges. And these works were widely circulated in Europe as the enlightenment was taking shape. There was an interesting thing happening there that’s a bit too complicated and nuanced to type out on my phone, but you can probably find more from here. There’s a good section in The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity about it.