Dissonant Worlds: Roger Vandersteene Among the Cree

by Earle H. Waugh

Book Overview

How did a Belgian Oblate missionary who came to Canada to convert the aboriginals come to be buried as a Cree chief? In Dissonant Worlds Earle Waugh traces the remarkable career of Roger Vandersteene: his life as an Oblate missionary among the Cree, his intensive study of the Cree language and folkways, his status as a Cree medicine man, and the evolution of his views on the relationship between aboriginal traditions and the Roman Catholicism of the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0889202591
• ISBN13: 9780889202597
• Release Date: November 1996
• Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"