Salvation and the savage
Subtitle: an analysis of Protestant missions and American Indian response, 1787-1862.
Publisher: University of Kentucky Press
Published: 1965
Place of publication: [Lexington]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 186
Subjects: Indians of North America -- Missions.; Protestant churches -- Missions -- History.; Missions -- United States -- History.
Description: The great, pre-Civil War attempt of Protestant missionaries to Christianize Native Americans is found by Robert F. Berkofer, Jr. to be a significant point of contact with enduring lessons for American thought. The irony displayed by this relationship, he says, did not really lie in the disparity between Anglo-Saxon ideals and the actual treatment of first peoples but in the failure of all, including the missions, to see that both sides had ultimately behaved according to their cultural values.Using the records of missions to sixteen tribes in various regions of the United States, Berkofer has.
Notes: "Bibliographical essay": p. [161]-180.