Paths to the Northwest

Paths to the Northwest PDF

Author: Wilfred P. Schoenberg

Publisher: Loyola Press

Published: 1982

Total Pages: 680

ISBN-13:

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A detailed history of the Oregon Province of the Jesuits from 1831 to 1982. The Oregon Province includes St. Ignatius Mission. Illustrates how the Pacific Northwest Indian missions became a very small part of the Province's business as it grew. The Alaskan Mission and Jesuit educational work occupied most of the Province's resources.

Mission Among the Blackfeet

Mission Among the Blackfeet PDF

Author: Howard L. Harrod

Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press

Published: 1975-10-01

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 9780806131535

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As the once vital world of the Blackfoot Indians crumbled in the face of advancing white civilization, shrinking buffalo herds, and the ravages of smallpox, yet another blow was struck at its social and religious foundations with the arrival of the Christian missionaries, both Protestant and Catholic. In this book the author recounts the history of the missions and their impact on the Blackfeet, from their founding in the 1840's to the present day. He has drawn upon much previously unpublished material to recapture the tribe's proud and tragic moments, the sometimes equally tragic fate of the missionaries, and the effects of shifting governmental and denominational policies upon both groups.