Lakota Sioux Missions, South Dakota (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780738533933)

President U.S. Grant's national Peace Policy of 1869 set in motion the South Dakota Missionary movement. The peace plan assigned one religious denomination to each Indian Reservation to 'Christianize and civilize' the Indian. When religious groups protested the government's policy of exclusion, the limitations of the policy were lifted in 1881. Soon thereafter, many denominations were allowed to establish missions where they wanted. Soon missions, churches, and schools of many different Christian affiliations dotted the reservations, often within a few miles of one another. In Lakota Sioux Missions, over two hundred historical photographs illustrate the story of the mission era, its intended policy of assimilation, the resistance to change, and eventual compromise.

Author: Janice Cerney
ISBN-10: 0738533939
ISBN-13: 9780738533933
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing (SC)
Language: English
Published: 06/01/2005
Pages: 128
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.66lbs
Size: 9.08h x 6.56w x 0.34d