Salvation and the Savage: An Analysis of Protestant Missions and American Indian Response, 1787-1862

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 between Anglo-Saxon ideals and the actual treatment of first peoples but in the failure of all, including the missions, to see that both sides had ultimately behaved according to their cultural values.

Author: Robert F. Berkhofer
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 07/15/2014
Pages: 200
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.58lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.46d
ISBN: 9780813151243

About the Author

Robert F. Berkofer, Jr. was professor of history emeritus at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

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