TY  - BOOK
AU  - Cebula,Larry
TI  - Plateau Indians and the Quest for Spiritual Power, 1700-1850
SN  - 9780803256262
AV  - E78 .P538 2014
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Lincoln
PB  - UNP - Nebraska
KW  - Indians of North America
KW  - Columbia Plateau
KW  - Religion
KW  - Missions
KW  - History
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; Front Cover; Halftitle Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; A World of Spirits; Change in the Protohistoric Era; First Encounters, 1800-1825; The Columbian Religion, 1825-1840; The Rejection of Christianity, 1836-1850; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index; Back Cover; 2; b
N2  - Fusing myriad primary and secondary sources, historian Larry Cebula offers a compelling master narrative of the impact of Christianity on the Columbian Plateau peoples in the Pacific Northwest from 1700 to 1850. For the Native peoples of the Columbian Plateau, the arrival of whites was understood primarily as a spiritual event, calling for religious explanations. Between 1700 and 1806, Native peoples of the Columbian Plateau experienced the presence of whites indirectly through the arrival of horses, some trade goods by long-distance exchange, and epidemic diseases that decimated their populat
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