Prophetic Worlds: Indians and Whites on the Columbia Plateau

by Christopher L. Miller

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In his provocative ethnohistory, Christopher Miller offers an innovative reinterpretation of relations between Native Americans and Christian settlers on the Columbia Plateau. Miller draws on a wealth of ethnographic resources to show how culturally-derived perceptions and systems of rationality played more of a determining role in the interactions between these two groups than did material forces. Initially, Plateau Indians and the American missionaries...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0813510848

ISBN13:9780813510842

Release Date:May 1985

Publisher:Rutgers University Press

Length:174 Pages

Weight:0.40 lbs.

Related Subjects

19th Century Americas Ethnic & Tribal History Native American Native American Studies Politics & Social Sciences Social Sciences Specific Demographics State & Local

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