Perishing Heathens : Stories of Protestant Missionaries and Christian Indians in Antebellum America /

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"Perishing Heathens examines the missionary men and women who between 1800 and 1830 responded to the call to save Native peoples in missions, including the Osages in the Arkansas Territory; Cherokees in Tennessee and Georgia; and Ojibwe peoples in the Michigan Territory."--Provided by publ...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rubin, Julius H. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2017]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Missionaries.
Indians of North America > Religion.
Indians of North America > Missions.
HISTORY > United States > 19th Century.
RELIGION > Comparative Religion.
BODY, MIND & SPIRIT > Spirituality > Paganism & Neo-Paganism.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > General.
Missionnaires > États-Unis > Biographies.
Missionaries > United States > Biography.
Indians of North America > Missions > History > 19th century.
United States.
Biographies.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The travails of David Bacon: a humble missionary of the cross
  • The missionary vocation of Miss D: a life broken by disease and disappointment
  • The endless chain of religious intelligence: the emergence of an American evangelical identity
  • The question of K: the first friend of the Osage Nation unto God
  • The first fruits of the Cherokee Nation: Catharine Brown and Sister Margaret Ann
  • Metis Christian Indian lives: Jane Johnston schoolcraft and Mackinaw Mission converts.

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