{"product_id":"black-robes-enter-coyotes-world-chief-charlo-and-father-de-smet-in-the-rocky-mountains-hardback-9781496239617","title":"Black Robes Enter Coyote's World; Chief Charlo and Father De Smet in the Rocky Mountains (Hardback) 9781496239617","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eBlack Robes Enter Coyote's World\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eChief Charlo and Father De Smet in the Rocky Mountains\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eSally Thompson (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781496239617\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 1 December 2024\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e384 pages, 14 photographs, 54 illustrations, 7 maps, index\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 3.9 cm, 0.734 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\"Thompson's work will appeal to Western historians, tribal historians and, in an easy-to-read manner, to general readers whose interests lean toward filling the blanks of our collective histories.\"-Rodney G. Thomas, \u003ci\u003eRoundup Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“I wish everyone in western Montana would read this book. It presents an honest and respectful view of SÉliŠ history.”-Johnny Arlee, Salish elder and spiritual leader\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“Here is a history of the American West as seen in the intertwined lives of a Jesuit missionary and a Salish chief. Sally Thompson presents an intimate, blow-by-blow description of the transformation of the lives and lands of the Salish people in Montana’s Bitterroot Valley from the 1830s through the turn of the century. It is a story of prophecies gone wrong, good intentions gone bad, and the clash of spiritual beliefs and values. Readers will be captivated by this epic, tragic story and its final message of endurance, survival, and hope.”-Annick Smith, author of \u003ci\u003eHomestead\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eCrossing the Plains with Bruno\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“Sally Thompson has put together an outstanding historical narrative that reveals diligent research and surprising discoveries through imaginative storytelling. The organizational device of employing the two stellar lives of Father Pierre-Jean De Smet and Chief Charlo of the Flathead Nation, opens a rich archival vein of documents, both oral and written. The result of their shared transitional experiences makes for insightful reading.”-William E. Farr, author of \u003ci\u003eBlackfoot Redemption: A Blood Indian’s Story of Murder, Confinement, and Imperfect Justice\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“Sally Thompson has an almost supernatural ability to move between the white (Euro-American) and Native worlds with ease, understanding, and empathy. She uses that remarkable talent, along with original Jesuit journals and deep knowledge of Native tradition, to bring new understanding to the American West. Unlike so many portrayals, this West is not a world of good guys and bad guys, but one of complex interactions over many years between different worlds. One of the most distant and last Native nations to face an influx of whites, the Bitterroot Salish and their story, as rendered by Thompson, offer a vivid and emblematic journey through the tremendous cultural shifts that occurred on this continent. \u003ci\u003eBlack Robes Enter Coyote’s World\u003c\/i\u003e is essential reading to understand the American West.”-Peter Stark, author of \u003ci\u003eGallop Toward the Sun: Tecumseh and William Henry Harrison’s Struggle for the Destiny of a Nation\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“As a result of a long Montana residence appreciating the Native peoples-plus much wholly-new research-veteran anthropologist Sally Thompson has written a book no one else has been able to write. A dual biography of Bitterroot Salish leader Charlo and Jesuit missionary\/colonizer Pierre-Jean De Smet, \u003ci\u003eBlack Robes Enter Coyote’s World\u003c\/i\u003e lays out two competing ways of seeing the same Earth-one nested in the ancient continent, the other transplanted and utterly certain of its correctness. The result is a great story, beautifully told, with more than a touch of pathos.”-Dan Flores, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e best-selling author of \u003ci\u003eCoyote America\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eWild New World\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eBlack Robes Enter Coyote’s World\u003c\/i\u003e brings to life the complicated history of Jesuit missionaries among Montana’s Native peoples-a saga of encounter, accommodation, and resistance during the transformative decades of the mid-to-late nineteenth century. Sally Thompson tells the story of how Jesuit values played out in the lives of the Bitterroot Salish people. The famous Black Robe (Jesuit) Father Pierre-Jean De Smet actually spent little time among his “beloved Flatheads.” Instead, he traveled extensively between the Pacific and the Rockies, mapping the pathways and noting the valuable resources. His popular writings helped spark the westward movement of white settlers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Thompson picks up the story of the Salish peoples and black-robed missionaries at a Potawatomi mission on the Missouri in 1839 and follows their intertwined experiences throughout the lifetime of Salish chief Charlo, who eventually cursed the day white immigrants came into his country. Chief Charlo attributed the missionaries’ disconnected beliefs and exploitative actions to their status as orphans rejected from their place of creation, as he had learned from the story of Eden. Despite Charlo’s valiant efforts to protect his homeland, the Salish endured a forced removal from their beloved Bitterroot Valley to the Flathead Reservation in 1891. Charlo died in 1910, just before the massive giveaway of more than half of the Salish’s treaty-guaranteed lands through implementation of the Allotment Act. Despite it all, his people endure.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In this up-close account of the Bitterroot Salish people during the lifetime of Chief Charlo, Thompson examines the fundamental differences in the ways Euro-Americans and Native Americans related to land and nature.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eList of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003e Foreword by Myrna Adams Dumontier and Greg Dumontier\u003cbr\u003e Preface\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Midstream Moment\u003cbr\u003e Part 1. Merging Streams, 1790–\u003cbr\u003e1840\u003cbr\u003e 1. Separate Worlds\u003cbr\u003e 2. Westward Ho\u003cbr\u003e 3. Like Braided Streams\u003cbr\u003e 4. Prayer and Possibility\u003cbr\u003e Part 2. In the Salish World, 1841–\u003cbr\u003e60\u003cbr\u003e 5. Black Robes Enter Coyote’\u003cbr\u003es World\u003cbr\u003e 6. Reshaping Coyote’\u003cbr\u003es World\u003cbr\u003e 7. Covenant with Creation\u003cbr\u003e 8. Straddling the Divide\u003cbr\u003e 9. Atop a New Divide\u003cbr\u003e Part 3. The People Surrounded, 1860–\u003cbr\u003e1910\u003cbr\u003e 10. Native World Turned Inside Out\u003cbr\u003e 11. Disillusionment and Despair in Salish Country\u003cbr\u003e 12. The Shrinking World\u003cbr\u003e 13. Shadows Abound\u003cbr\u003e 14. Charlo’\u003cbr\u003es Lament\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue: The Worlds We Carry\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Bison Books","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52745041903896,"sku":"9781496239617","price":25.57,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/black-robes-enter-coyotes-world-chief-charlo-and-father-de-smet-in-the-rocky-mountains-hardback-9781496239617","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}