Salvation and the savage : an analysis of Protestant missions and American Indian response, 1787--1862 / by Robert F. Berkhofer, Jr.
Material type: TextPublication details: Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, (c)1965.Description: 1 online resource (201 pages)Content type:- text
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- 9780813162102
- E98 .S258 1965
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Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction; I: The Grand Object; II: Nurseries of Morality; III: Temples in the Forest; IV: An Industrious Citizenry; V: Other Whites; VI: Jehovah's Stepchildren; VII: Christians versus Pagans; Epilogue. The Harvest Unreaped; Bibliographical Essay.
The great, pre-Civil War attempt of Protestant missionaries to Christianize Native Americans is found by Robert F. Berkofer, Jr. to be a significant point of contact with enduring lessons for American thought. The irony displayed by this relationship, he says, did not really lie in the disparity between Anglo-Saxon ideals and the actual treatment of first peoples but in the failure of all, including the missions, to see that both sides had ultimately behaved according to their cultural values. Using the records of missions to sixteen tribes in various regions of the United States, Berkofer has.
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