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Author Cebula, Larry

Title Plateau Indians and the Quest for Spiritual Power, 1700-1850
Published Lincoln : UNP - Nebraska, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (340 pages)
Contents Front Cover; Halftitle Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; A World of Spirits; Change in the Protohistoric Era; First Encounters, 1800-1825; The Columbian Religion, 1825-1840; The Rejection of Christianity, 1836-1850; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index; Back Cover
Summary Fusing myriad primary and secondary sources, historian Larry Cebula offers a compelling master narrative of the impact of Christianity on the Columbian Plateau peoples in the Pacific Northwest from 1700 to 1850. For the Native peoples of the Columbian Plateau, the arrival of whites was understood primarily as a spiritual event, calling for religious explanations. Between 1700 and 1806, Native peoples of the Columbian Plateau experienced the presence of whites indirectly through the arrival of horses, some trade goods by long-distance exchange, and epidemic diseases that decimated their populat
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Subject Indians of North America -- Columbia Plateau -- Religion
Indians of North America -- Missions -- Columbia Plateau
Indians of North America -- Missions
Indians of North America -- Religion
United States -- Columbia Plateau
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0803256264
9780803256262