At Standing Rock and Wounded Knee: The Journals and Papers of Father Francis M. Craft, 1888-1890 - Couverture rigide

Craft, Francis M.

 
9780870623721: At Standing Rock and Wounded Knee: The Journals and Papers of Father Francis M. Craft, 1888-1890
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ISBN 10 : 0870623729 ISBN 13 : 9780870623721
Editeur : Arthur H. Clark Company, 2009

Synopsis

During the turbulent final years of the Indian Wars, a young Catholic priest entered service as a missionary to the Sioux Indians in Dakota Territory. Father Francis M. Craft rode a three-hundred-mile circuit on the Standing Rock Reservation and, in 1890, was a witness to events at Wounded Knee, where he sustained serious wounds. His journals provide valuable insights into reservation life, including the federal acquisition of Sioux lands and tensions between the Catholic Church and the Indian Bureau.

Thomas W. Foley, author of a previous biography of Craft, now presents key selections from Craft's voluminous journals and papers. In addition to documenting significant events, Craft's writings reveal his driven, stubborn personality as he went about his day-to-day routines: performing sacraments, ministering to the sick, even working to create an Indian sisterhood. Sympathetic to Indian traditions, he provides valuable insight into Lakota spiritual life.

By drawing on Craft's eyewitness report of Wounded Knee, Foley offers a bold reinterpretation of that event as a genuine battle rather than a massacre. The volume also features more than twenty illustrations, including two previously unpublished Wounded Knee maps drawn by Craft himself.

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À propos des auteurs

Thomas W. Foley, a retired labor-personnel executive, was the author of Father Francis M. Craft: Missionary to the Sioux.



Michael F. Steltenkamp is Professor of Religious Studies at Wheeling Jesuit University, Wheeling, West Virginia. He is the author of Black Elk: Holy Man of the Oglala and The Sacred Vision: Native American Religion and Its Practice Today.

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Éditeur
Arthur H. Clark Company
Date d'édition
2009
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0870623729
ISBN 13 
9780870623721
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
348
Éditeur
Foley Thomas W.
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