Salvation and the savage

an analysis of Protestant missions and American Indian response, 1787-1862.

by Berkhofer, Robert F.

1965 186 pages eng

The great, pre-Civil War attempt of Protestant missionaries to Christianize Native Americans is found by Robert F. Berkofer, Jr. to be a significant point of contact with enduring lessons for American thought. The irony displayed by this relationship, he says, did not really lie in the disparity bet…