Religion and Resistance in the Encounter Between the Coeur D'Alene Indians and Jesuit Missionaries (Native American Studies, V. 10)
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
Published: March 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 181
ISBN-13: 9780773469266
Subjects: Books of the New Testament; Christian mission & evangelism; Indigenous peoples; c 1800 to c 1900; Religion; Religion - Church Life; Idaho; North America; Christian Ministry - Missions; General; Coeur d'Alene Indians; Ethnic identity; Jesuits; Missions; Skitswish Indians
Description: This book traces the history of the relationship between the Coeur d'Alene Indian people of northern Idaho and the Roman Catholic missionary order of the Jesuits (Society of Jesus) from the mid-nineteenth century to contemporary times. It is a unique account in that Dr. Fortier is himself a former Jesuit and served as a priest among the Coeur d'Alene while simultaneously conducting anthropological fieldwork on Indian-Catholic cultural identity, religion and socio-economic change.