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Sacred Encounters - Father De Smet and the Indians of the Rocky Mountain West (Paperback)
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Sacred Encounters - Father De Smet and the Indians of the Rocky Mountain West (Paperback)
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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 confrontation and
dialogue between two sacred worlds: an invasion of the heart.In
full color, with two hundred illustrations, Sacred Encounters
captures on the page the emotional tension, drama, and multiple
voices of the exhibition of the same title. With the collaboration
of more than one hundred Native American, Jesuit, curatorial, and
academic consultants, Sacred Encounters bridges the fine arts,
history, and ethnography to evoke the ongoing dialogue between
Christianity and traditional Indian belief that produced new ways
of life and new ways of believing for native and newcomer alike.
Among the illustrations are photographs of newly discovered
drawings and watercolors by Jesuit artist Nicolas Point; maps by De
Smet and Indian mapmakers; rare battle drawings by the Salish
warrior Five Crows; and mid nineteenth-century Plateau and Plains
Indian artifacts associated with the travels of De Smet, the
Audubon expedition, fur trader Robert Campbell, and Canadian artist
Paul Kane.
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