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Paperback Sacred Encounters: Father de Smet and the Indians of the Rocky Mountain West Book

ISBN: 0806125764

ISBN13: 9780806125763

Sacred Encounters: Father de Smet and the Indians of the Rocky Mountain West

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For nearly 350 years after Columbus's landing, the remote Northern Rocky mountain homeland of the Flathead and Coeur d'Alene tribes remained a safe haven, virtually unmapped and unexplored by whites. But heralded by Indian prophecies and a request for missionaries, in 1841, the Belgian-born Jesuit Pierre-Jean De Smet arrived among the Flathead, or Salish, in western Montana. His dream of founding an empire of Christian Indians sparked instead a...

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