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Missionary conquest : the Gospel and Native American cultural genocide / George E. Tinker.
Penn Museum Library E98.M6 T56 1993
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tinker, George E.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Indians of North America--Missions.
- Indians of North America.
- Indians, Treatment of--North America--History.
- Indians, Treatment of.
- Missions--North America--History.
- Missions.
- Missionaries--North America--Biography.
- Missionaries.
- History.
- North America.
- Serra, Junípero, Saint, 1713-1784.
- Serra, Junípero.
- Eliot, John, 1604-1690.
- Eliot, John.
- Smet, Pierre-Jean de, 1801-1873.
- Smet, Pierre-Jean de.
- Whipple, Henry Benjamin, 1822-1901.
- Whipple, Henry Benjamin.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 182 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis : Fortress Press, [1993]
- Summary:
- This fascinating probe into U.S. mission history spotlights four cases: Junipero Serra, the Franciscan whose mission to California natives has made him a candidate for sainthood; John Eliot, the renowned Puritan missionary to Massachusetts Indians; Pierre-Jean De Smet, the Jesuit missioner to the Indians of the Midwest; and Henry Benjamin Whipple, who engineered the U.S. government's theft of the Black Hills from the Sioux.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-173)
- ISBN:
- 0800625765 :
- OCLC:
- 28114619
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