In his provocative ethnohistory; Christopher Miller offers an innovative reinterpretation of relations between Native Americans and Christian settlers on the Columbia Plateau. Miller draws on a wealth of ethnographic resources to show how culturally-derived perceptions and systems of rationality played more of a determining role in the interactions between these two groups than did material forces. Initially; Plateau Indians and the American missionaries who came to convert them perceived each other as crucial to the fulfillment of their own millennial destiny. When these views were contravened; relations quickly and fatally soured. In explaining this devolution; Prophetic Worlds provides a novel and insightful rendering of the cultural understandings that underwrote the mid-nineteenth-century transformation of life on the Plateau.
#115835 in Books 2014-06-01Original language:EnglishPDF # 1 8.50 x 1.00 x 10.00l; .0 #File Name: 0292758456310 pages
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