Presbyterian Missionary Attitudes toward American Indians, 1837–1893
Title | Presbyterian Missionary Attitudes toward American Indians, 1837–1893 PDF eBook |
Author | Coleman, Michael C. |
Publisher | Univ. Press of Mississippi |
Pages | 244 |
Release | 1985 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781617034602 |
Presbyterian Missionary Attitudes Toward American Indians, 1837-1893
Title | Presbyterian Missionary Attitudes Toward American Indians, 1837-1893 PDF eBook |
Author | Michael C. Coleman |
Publisher | Univ. Press of Mississippi |
Pages | 222 |
Release | 2007-11-26 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9781604730074 |
Based on the correspondence of missionaries in the field, this book offers valuable insight unto understanding Protestant attitudes toward the American Indians in the nineteenth century. By focusing upon the work of the Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S., the book portrays a major Protestant denomination's evangelical program to take the Indian from heathenism to gospel light. From its founding in 1837 the board sent over 450 missionaries to at least nineteen diverse and widely separated Indian tribes, with a goal of uplifting them into the Protestant tradition of Christian civilization. These zealous men and women sent back thousands of detailed and often highly personal letters from the Indian field, and this book is based primarily upon that store of correspondence. Seeking to fill the need for critical case studies of individual missionary organizations, this book depicts the missionaries as cultural revolutionaries in the deepest human sense. Moved by a nearly absolute ethnocentrism, they denounced almost every aspect of tribal culture. Among the Indians they found virtually nothing worth incorporating into the codes of Christian civilization. Yet these missionaries resisted racial explanations for what they saw as Indian failings and retained a conviction that individual tribal members were both eligible for eternal salvation and capable of attaining citizenship in the United States. In this book the author places the work of the Board of Foreign Missions in a historical context and presents the goals, methods, backgrounds and motivations of the missionaries. He also examines the cluster of ideas which constituted the Presbyterian definition for Christian civilization.
Presbyterian Missionaries and Their Attitudes to the American Indians, 1837 - 1893
Title | Presbyterian Missionaries and Their Attitudes to the American Indians, 1837 - 1893 PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 312 |
Release | 1977 |
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Not Race, But Grace
Title | Not Race, But Grace PDF eBook |
Author | Michael C. Coleman |
Publisher | |
Pages | 20 |
Release | 1980 |
Genre | Indians of North America |
ISBN |
American Indian Children at School, 1850-1930
Title | American Indian Children at School, 1850-1930 PDF eBook |
Author | Michael C. Coleman |
Publisher | Univ. Press of Mississippi |
Pages | 268 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 9781604730098 |
Drawn from Native American autobiographical accounts, a study revealing white society's program of civilizing American Indian schoolchildren
Cultivating the Rosebuds
Title | Cultivating the Rosebuds PDF eBook |
Author | Devon A. Mihesuah |
Publisher | University of Illinois Press |
Pages | 244 |
Release | 1997-01-15 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 9780252066771 |
Established by the Cherokee Nation in 1851 in present-day eastern Oklahoma, the nondenominational Cherokee Female Seminary was one of the most important schools in the history of American Indian education. Devon Mihesuah explores its curriculum, faculty, administration, and educational philosophy. Recipient of a 1995 Critics' Choice Award of the American Educational Studies Association. 24 photos.
The Alabama-Coushatta Indians
Title | The Alabama-Coushatta Indians PDF eBook |
Author | Jonathan B. Hook |
Publisher | Texas A&M University Press |
Pages | 184 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | Alabama Indians |
ISBN | 9780890967829 |
Hook describes what is known of the various European intrusions into Creek (Muskhogean) culture and how these changed hte tribal life of the Alabamas and Coushattas, eventually leading them to the reservation they now share in Southeast Texas.