Sacred Encounters: Father de Smet and the Indians of the Rocky Mountain West

by Jacqueline Peterson

Book Overview

For nearly 350 years after Columbus's landing, the remote Northern Rocky mountain homeland of the Flathead and Coeur d'Alene tribes remained a safe haven, virtually unmapped and unexplored by whites. But heralded by Indian prophecies and a request for missionaries, in 1841, the Belgian-born Jesuit Pierre-Jean De Smet arrived among the Flathead, or Salish, in western Montana. His dream of founding an empire of Christian Indians sparked instead a...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806125764
• ISBN13: 9780806125763
• Release Date: November 1993
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Length: 194 Pages
• Weight: 2.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 9.8" x 11.1"