Black Robes enter Coyote's world: Chief Charlo and Father De Smet in the Rocky Mountains

""Black Robes Enter Coyote's World" is the story of Manifest Destiny and the role missionaries like Father Pierre-Jean De Smet played in the expulsion of the Native populations they claimed to love from the area that is now Montana"--

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1. Verfasser: Thompson, Sally, (Sally N.) (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Dumontier, Myrna Adams (VerfasserIn eines Geleitwortes), Dumontier, Greg (VerfasserIn eines Geleitwortes)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Lincoln University of Nebraska Press [2024]
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Zusammenfassung:""Black Robes Enter Coyote's World" is the story of Manifest Destiny and the role missionaries like Father Pierre-Jean De Smet played in the expulsion of the Native populations they claimed to love from the area that is now Montana"--
"Black Robes Enter Coyote's World brings to life the complicated history of Jesuit missionaries among Montana's Native peoples-a saga of encounter, accommodation, and resistance during the transformative decades of the mid-to-late nineteenth century. Sally Thompson tells the story of how Jesuit values played out in the lives of the Bitterroot Salish people. The famous Black Robe (Jesuit) Father Pierre Jean De Smet actually spent little time among his "beloved Flatheads." Instead, he traveled extensively between the Pacific and the Rockies, mapping the pathways and noting the valuable resources. His popular writings helped spark the westward movement of white settlers. Thompson picks up the story of the Salish peoples and black-robed missionaries at a Potawatomi mission on the Missouri in 1839 and follows their intertwined experiences throughout the lifetime of Salish chief Charlo, who eventually cursed the day white immigrants came into his country. Chief Charlo attributed the missionaries' disconnected beliefs and exploitative actions to their status as orphans rejected from their place of creation, as he had learned from the story of Eden. Despite Charlo's valiant efforts to protect his homeland, the Salish endured a forced removal from their beloved Bitterroot Valley to the Flathead Reservation in 1891. Charlo died in 1910, just before the massive giveaway of more than half of the Salish's treaty-guaranteed lands through implementation of the Allotment Act. Despite it all, his people endure. In this up-close account of the Bitterroot Salish people during the lifetime of Chief Charlo, Thompson examines the fundamental differences in the ways Euro-Americans and Native Americans related to land and nature. "--
Beschreibung:xxiii, 350 pages illustrations, maps 24 cm
ISBN:9781496239617
149623961X

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