xxi, 218 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 23 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-207)
Contents:
Introduction: Indian missions and social change Traditional culture and early Christian missions: Buffalo days ; White man's medicine ; The last buffalo Catholic missions and forced acculturation: Conflicts with the Powers of Darkness ; A temporary Protestant establishment ; Civilizing and Christianizing ; The resistance of Satan Protestant missions struggle for identity: Short coats and civilization ; The Church of the Little Sweet Pine ; Short coats and segregation The shape of the present: A question of social justice ; Protestant and Catholic responses Conclusion: The two heritages compared Appendix: "To the Indians, Heart Butte" Illustrations: A signal that buffalo are near the camp / Nicolas Point A chief telling the camp that buffalo are near / Nicolas Point Pierre-Jean De Smet, Society of Jesuits Wolf's Son / Nicolas Point Peter Prando, S. J. Chief White Calf who had been baptized at Father Prando's Birch Creek Chapel, and members of his band (1888) Ursuline sisters and Indian girls at St. Peter's Mission Holy Family Mission Holy Family Mission Band (1908) Little Flower Church Eugene S. Dutcher, first Methodist missionary to the Blackfeet Epworth Piegan Methodist Mission, west of Browning, Montana, about 1895 [Native Americans dressed for church] Epworth Piegan Methodist Mission The Church of the Little Sweet Pine Father Egon Mallman, the last Jesuit missionary on the Blackfeet Reservation Three generations / Toge Fujihara Maps: Blackfoot lands, 1855-74, with approximate sites of Roman Catholic mission stations The four locations of St. Peter's Mission Blackfeet Reservation, showing approximate locations of past and present mission sites, Protestant and Catholic
