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Converting the Rosebud : Catholic mission and the Lakotas, 1886-1916

Title
Converting the Rosebud : Catholic mission and the Lakotas, 1886-1916 / Harvey Markowitz.
Author
Markowitz, Harvey
Publication
  • Norman, OK : University of Oklahoma Press, [2018]
  • ©2018

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Description
xvi, 303 pages : illustrations, map, portraits; 24 cm
Summary
"Examines the origins and early history of St. Francis Catholic Indian Mission on the Sicangu Lakota Rosebud Reservation within the wider, overlapping contexts of federal Indian relations, Catholic missionary policy, and Lakota culture."--Provided by publisher.
Series Statement
Civilization of the American Indian series ; [volume 277]
Uniform Title
Civilization of the American Indian series ; v. 277.
Alternative Title
  • Catholic mission and the Lakotas, 1886-1916
  • Converting the Rosebud + Catholic mission and the Lakotas, 1886-1916
Subject
  • St. Francis Catholic Indian Mission (Rosebud Indian Reservation, S.D.)
  • Jesuits > Missions > History. > South Dakota > Rosebud Indian Reservation
  • Lakota Indians > Missions
  • Lakota Indians > Religion
  • Lakota Indians > History
  • Rosebud Indian Reservation (S.D.) > History > Sources
Note
  • Series numbering from back dust jacket flap.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-294) and index.
Contents
The road to reform in federal Indian policy -- The Catholic Church and American Indian policy -- The Lakotas and "the peace" -- Catholic Dakota, Nakota, and Lakota Mission and the Grant peace policy, 1869-1886 -- The beginnings of Rosebud Catholic mission, 1878-1886 -- Otto von Bismarck, the Jesuits' Buffalo Province, and the Franciscan Sisters of Penance and Christian Charity -- The founding and evolution of Saint Francis Mission, 1886-1916 -- The paradigm of mission at Saint Francis : civilizing and Christianizing the Sicangus -- "Always crosses, but never unhappy" : Sicangu obstacles to missionization -- "We Indians do not want such strife" : non-Sicangu obstacles to Catholic missionization -- Pre-reservation Lakota religion and the reception of early Catholic mission -- Pragmatism and Sicangu Catholicism -- The reception of early Catholic mission. Part two, Catholicism and sacred power -- Conclusion: A crisis in mission.
Call Number
JFE 18-3137
ISBN
  • 9780806159850
  • 0806159855
LCCN
2017033952
OCLC
995162371
Author
Markowitz, Harvey, author.
Title
Converting the Rosebud : Catholic mission and the Lakotas, 1886-1916 / Harvey Markowitz.
Publisher
Norman, OK : University of Oklahoma Press, [2018]
Copyright Date
©2018
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
Civilization of the American Indian series ; [volume 277]
Civilization of the American Indian series ; v. 277.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-294) and index.
Research Call Number
JFE 18-3137
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