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Book Description 1982. North America, Native Americans, colonialism. Loyola University Press. 267p. Good+ cloth and very good dust jacket pages 1-66 are bumped/folded (without a crease). Probably thrown into a bagtext is tight and clean. Seller Inventory # 136102
Book Description Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Account of the early Jesuit missionaries and their attempt to "weave their teachings about Christ into the fabric of Indian life" rather than convert indiginous Americans into "little Europeans". Hardcover in jacket, as pictured. Light wear to book, jacket price-clipped with minor rubbing, light edgewear. Text clean; xii, 267 pages; index, bibliography, notes, maps, lists of missionaries with very brief biographies, tribes encountered with notes on their languages & places, missionaries established. Size: Small Octavo. Seller Inventory # w0403
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. 267p. A tan cloth hardcover book in very good condition. Ex-library; original binding. Very faint label residue on spine; no other exterior library markings. Label annd pasted-in jacket panels on endpapers. Stamp on title page. Text clean and binding tight. History of the interaction between Jesuit missionaries and Native Americans. Seller Inventory # 206412
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Pp: xii + 267. Titles: sp. Illust. w/ b/w map (listed). Brown cloth bds. DJ has cup ring stain on rear. Interior leaves are clean and tight. A history of the French Jesuit ("Les Robes Noires") missionary activity in the 17th century to the Indians of Canada, New York, the Great Lakes and beyond. The Jesuits sought to Christianize the natives without dramatically changing their beliefs and society. The author shows how the Jesuits utilized native beliefs and customs and adapted them to teach Christianity. An important work on the religious impact of colonization on native American society. Includes notes, bibliography & index. A nice clean copy. Seller Inventory # 004320