TY  - BOOK
AU  - Berkhofer,Robert F.
TI  - Salvation and the savage: an analysis of Protestant missions and American Indian response, 1787--1862 
SN  - 9780813162102
AV  - E98 .S258 1965
PY  - 1965///
CY  - Lexington
PB  - The University Press of Kentucky
KW  - Indians of North America
KW  - Missions
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - Protestant churches
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; 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; 2; b
N2  - 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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