Black Robes enter Coyote's world : Chief Charlo and Father De Smet in the Rocky Mountains / Sally Thompson ; foreword by Myrna Adams Dumontier and Greg Dumontier.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Thompson, Sally (Sally N.), author.

Contributor:

Dumontier, Myrna Adams, writer of foreword.

Dumontier, Greg, writer of foreword.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Charlo, Salish chief, 1831-1910.

Charlo.

Smet, Pierre-Jean de, 1801-1873.

Smet, Pierre-Jean de.

Salish Indians--History--19th century.

Salish Indians.

Salish Indians--Biography.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xxiii, 350 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2024]

Summary:

""Black Robes Enter Coyote's World" is the story of Manifest Destiny and the role missionaries like Father Pierre-Jean De Smet played in the expulsion of the Native populations they claimed to love from the area that is now Montana"-- Provided by publisher.

"Black Robes Enter Coyote's World brings to life the complicated history of Jesuit missionaries among Montana's Native peoples-a saga of encounter, accommodation, and resistance during the transformative decades of the mid-to-late nineteenth century. Sally Thompson tells the story of how Jesuit values played out in the lives of the Bitterroot Salish people. The famous Black Robe (Jesuit) Father Pierre Jean De Smet actually spent little time among his "beloved Flatheads." Instead, he traveled extensively between the Pacific and the Rockies, mapping the pathways and noting the valuable resources. His popular writings helped spark the westward movement of white settlers. Thompson picks up the story of the Salish peoples and black-robed missionaries at a Potawatomi mission on the Missouri in 1839 and follows their intertwined experiences throughout the lifetime of Salish chief Charlo, who eventually cursed the day white immigrants came into his country. Chief Charlo attributed the missionaries' disconnected beliefs and exploitative actions to their status as orphans rejected from their place of creation, as he had learned from the story of Eden. Despite Charlo's valiant efforts to protect his homeland, the Salish endured a forced removal from their beloved Bitterroot Valley to the Flathead Reservation in 1891. Charlo died in 1910, just before the massive giveaway of more than half of the Salish's treaty-guaranteed lands through implementation of the Allotment Act. Despite it all, his people endure. In this up-close account of the Bitterroot Salish people during the lifetime of Chief Charlo, Thompson examines the fundamental differences in the ways Euro-Americans and Native Americans related to land and nature. "-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction: Midstream moment

Part 1. Merging streams, 1790-1840

1. Separate worlds ; 2. Westward Ho ; 3. Like braided streams ; 4. Prayer and possibility

Part 2. In the Salish world, 1841-60: 5. Black Robes enter Coyote's world ; 6. Reshaping Coyote's world ; 7. Covenant with creation ; 8. Straddling the divide ; 9. Atop a new divide

Part 3. The People surrounded, 1860-1910: 10. Native world turned inside out ; 11. Disillusionment and despair in the Salish country ; 12. The shrinking world ; 13. Shadows abound ; 14. Charlo's lament

Epilogue: The worlds we carry.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781496239617

149623961X

OCLC:

1427238450