The Paths of Kateri's Kin

by Vecsey, Christopher

• ISBN13: 9780268038649
• ISBN10: 0268038643
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-01-01
• Publisher: Univ of Notre Dame Pr

Author Biography

Christopher Vecsey directs the division of the humanities at Colgate University, where he is professor of religion and Native American studies

Table of Contents

Maps	ix
Preface	xi
Acknowledgments	xv
I French Catholicism among Native Americans
Introduction	3	(5)
The Society of Jesus	8	(6)
The Jesuit Program	14	(9)
Accommodations to Cultures	23	(6)
Indian Responses	29	(9)
The First Converts	38	(6)
The Montagnais	44	(12)
The Hurons	56	(14)
Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupre	70	(7)
II Eastern Iroquoians, Algonkians, and Muskogeans
The Iroquois and the Jesuits	77	(10)
The Reductions	87	(9)
Kateri Tekakwitha	96	(13)
St. Regis, Akwesasne	109	(15)
Modern Scenes	124	(15)
The Acadian Missions	139	(7)
Solidifying Algonkian-Catholic Culture	146	(5)
Passamaquoddy Catholics in Turmoil	151	(4)
Pleasant Point	155	(8)
Indian Township	163	(10)
Missions in the Southeast	173	(2)
The History of Houma Faith	175	(15)
Houma Catholics Today	190	(9)
The Choctaws	199	(8)
III The Central Algonkians
Centuries of Ojibway Missions	207	(15)
Varieties of Ojibway Religion	222	(12)
Anishinabe Spiritual Centre	234	(6)
Foundations of Potawatomi Catholicism	240	(8)
The Prairie Potawatomis	248	(9)
Contemporary Potawatomi Catholics	257	(12)
IV To the Northwest Coast
A Ritual and Its Myth	269	(4)
Catholicism Comes to the Rocky Mountains	273	(8)
Things Fall Apart	281	(10)
Survivals	291	(5)
The Oblates of Western Canada	296	(11)
Canadian Indian Catholicism	307	(5)
Oregon Territory's Catholic Ladder	312	(4)
The Coast Salishans	316	(5)
Translating Catholic Concepts	321	(8)
Puget Sound Patterns	329	(10)
Modern Renewal	339	(14)
Bibliography	353	(22)
Index	375