Presbyterian Missionary Attitudes Toward American Indians 1837 1893

Author : Coleman, Michael C.
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 9781617034602
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Presbyterian Missionary Attitudes toward American Indians, 1837–1893 written by Coleman, Michael C. and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 1985 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Michael C. Coleman
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 9781604730074
Total Pages : 222 pages
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Download or read book Presbyterian Missionary Attitudes Toward American Indians, 1837-1893 written by Michael C. Coleman and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2007-11-26 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the correspondence of missionaries in the field, this book offers valuable insight unto understanding Protestant attitudes toward the American Indians in the nineteenth century. By focusing upon the work of the Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S., the book portrays a major Protestant denomination's evangelical program to take the Indian from heathenism to gospel light. From its founding in 1837 the board sent over 450 missionaries to at least nineteen diverse and widely separated Indian tribes, with a goal of uplifting them into the Protestant tradition of Christian civilization. These zealous men and women sent back thousands of detailed and often highly personal letters from the Indian field, and this book is based primarily upon that store of correspondence. Seeking to fill the need for critical case studies of individual missionary organizations, this book depicts the missionaries as cultural revolutionaries in the deepest human sense. Moved by a nearly absolute ethnocentrism, they denounced almost every aspect of tribal culture. Among the Indians they found virtually nothing worth incorporating into the codes of Christian civilization. Yet these missionaries resisted racial explanations for what they saw as Indian failings and retained a conviction that individual tribal members were both eligible for eternal salvation and capable of attaining citizenship in the United States. In this book the author places the work of the Board of Foreign Missions in a historical context and presents the goals, methods, backgrounds and motivations of the missionaries. He also examines the cluster of ideas which constituted the Presbyterian definition for Christian civilization.

Author : Michael C. Coleman
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 9781604730098
Total Pages : 268 pages
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Download or read book American Indian Children at School, 1850-1930 written by Michael C. Coleman and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2008 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawn from Native American autobiographical accounts, a study revealing white society's program of civilizing American Indian schoolchildren

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Publisher : HISTREE
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 66 pages
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Download or read book The Journal of American Indian Family Research - Vol. VIII, No. 1 – 1987 written by and published by HISTREE. This book was released on with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jonathan B. Hook
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780890967829
Total Pages : 184 pages
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Download or read book The Alabama-Coushatta Indians written by Jonathan B. Hook and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hook describes what is known of the various European intrusions into Creek (Muskhogean) culture and how these changed hte tribal life of the Alabamas and Coushattas, eventually leading them to the reservation they now share in Southeast Texas.

Author : Miriam Forman-Brunell
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252077652
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Girls' History and Culture Reader written by Miriam Forman-Brunell and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pioneering, field-defining collection of essential texts exploring girlhood in the nineteenth century

Author : Mark S. Weiner
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814793649
Total Pages : 207 pages
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Download or read book Americans Without Law written by Mark S. Weiner and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2006-06 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Americans Without Law shows how the racial boundaries of civic life are based on widespread perceptions about the relative capacity of minority groups for legal behavior, which Mark S. Weiner calls “juridical racialism.” The book follows the history of this civic discourse by examining the legal status of four minority groups in four successive historical periods: American Indians in the 1880s, Filipinos after the Spanish-American War, Japanese immigrants in the 1920s, and African Americans in the 1940s and 1950s. Weiner reveals the significance of juridical racialism for each group and, in turn, Americans as a whole by examining the work of anthropological social scientists who developed distinctive ways of understanding racial and legal identity, and through decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court that put these ethno-legal views into practice. Combining history, anthropology, and legal analysis, the book argues that the story of juridical racialism shows how race and citizenship served as a nexus for the professionalization of the social sciences, the growth of national state power, economic modernization, and modern practices of the self.

Author : Sarah F. Wakefield
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806178000
Total Pages : 187 pages
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Download or read book Six Weeks in the Sioux Tepees written by Sarah F. Wakefield and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2015-01-28 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Dakota War (1862) was a searing event in Minnesota history as well as a signal event in the lives of Dakota people. Sarah F. Wakefield was caught up in this revolt. A young doctor’s wife and the mother of two small children, Wakefield published her unusual account of the war and her captivity shortly after the hanging of thirty-eight Dakotas accused of participation in the "Sioux uprising." Among those hanged were Chaska (We-Chank-Wash-ta-don-pee), a Mdewakanton Dakota who had protected her and her children during the upheaval. In a distinctive and compelling voice, Wakefield blames the government for the war and then relates her and her family’s ordeal, as well as Chaska’s and his family’s help and ultimate sacrifice. This is the first fully annotated modern edition of Six Weeks in the Sioux Tepees. June Namias’s extensive introduction and notes describe the historical and ethnographic background of Dakota-white relations in Minnesota and place Wakefield’s narrative in the context of other captivity narratives.

Author : Jon Miller
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136876251
Total Pages : 296 pages
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Download or read book Missionary Zeal and Institutional Control written by Jon Miller and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-05-22 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about the Basel Mission in the Gold Coast (now Ghana) before the First World War. Miller reconstructs the backgrounds and motivations of the mission's participants and describes the organizational structure that shaped their activities at home and abroad. He then traces some serious and recurrent internal problems to the commitment to difficult Pietist beliefs about authority and obedience. The organization survived those troubles and its impact on Ghana continued to grow, because the same biblical worldview that demanded extreme discipline also prepared the members of the mission community to sustain their efforts.

Author : Donna Martinez
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1440835772
Total Pages : 885 pages
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Download or read book 50 Events That Shaped American Indian History [2 volumes] written by Donna Martinez and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 885 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This powerful two-volume set provides an insider's perspective on American Indian experiences through engaging narrative entries about key historical events written by leading scholars in American Indian history as well as inspiring first-person accounts from American Indian peoples. This comprehensive, two-volume resource on American Indian history covers events from the time of ancient Indian civilizations in North America to recent happenings in American Indian life in the 21st century, providing readers with an understanding of not only what happened to shape the American Indian experience but also how these events—some of which occurred long ago—continue to affect people's lives today. The first section of the book focuses on history in the pre-European contact period, documenting the tens of thousands of years that American Indians have resided on the continent in ancient civilizations, in contrast with the very short history of a few hundred years following contact with Europeans—during which time tremendous changes to American Indian culture occurred. The event coverage continues chronologically, addressing the early Colonial period and beginning of trade with Europeans and the consequential destruction of native economies, to the period of Western expansion and Indian removal in the 1800s, to events of forced assimilation and later self-determination in the 20th century and beyond. Readers will appreciate how American Indians continue to live rich cultural, social, and religious lives thanks to the activism of communities, organizations, and individuals, and perceive how their inspiring collective story of self-determination and sovereignty is far from over.