Sacred Encounters: Father De Smet and the Indians of the Rocky Mountain West - Softcover

Jacqueline Peterson (author) & Laura Peers (Contributions By)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0806125764 ISBN 13: 9780806125763

Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press, 1993

Synopsis

Sacred Encounters For nearly 350 years after Columbus's landing, the remote Northern Rocky mountain homeland of the Flathead and Coeur d'Alene tribes remained a safe haven, virtually unmapped and unexplored by whites. But heralded by Indian prophecies and a request for missionaries, in 1841, the Belgian-born Jesuit Pierre-Jean De Smet arrived among the Flathead, or Salish, in western Montana. His dream of founding ... Full description

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About the Author:

Jacqueline Peterson is director and curator of Sacred Encounters, a multimedia traveling exhibition that opened at the Museum of the Rockies, Bozeman, Montana, in April 1993. She is an Associate Professor of History and Native American Studies at Washington State University, Pullman and Vancouver, and the author, with Jennifer S. H. Brown, of The New Peoples: Being and Becoming Metis in North America, and of articles about the Metis, the fur trade, and Indian women and religion. Knighted by the king of Belgium for her work on Father De Smet, she currently resides in Portland, Oregon.

Synopsis:

Documents an extraordinary exhibition organized by Washington State University in collaboration with the Cheney Cowles Museum. The exhibit focused on the encounter and mutual impact of Catholic and Native American Indian religions and cultures in Montana, Idaho, and Washington, beginning with Pierre-Jean De Smet of Belgium meeting the Salish (or Fl

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0806125764
• ISBN 13: 9780806125763
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 194