Prophetic Worlds: Indians and Whites on the Columbia Plateau

by Christopher L. Miller

Book Overview

In his provocative ethnohistory, Christopher Miller offers an innovative reinterpretation of relations between Native Americans and Christian settlers on the Columbia Plateau. Miller draws on a wealth of ethnographic resources to show how culturally-derived perceptions and systems of rationality played more of a determining role in the interactions between these two groups than did material forces. Initially, Plateau Indians and the American missionaries...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813510848
• ISBN13: 9780813510842
• Release Date: May 1985
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 174 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.