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Mellis, John C. "Coyote People and the Black Robes: Indigenous Roots of Salish Christianity," Saint Louis University, May 1992. Advisor: Belden C. Lane (11, 16, 2)
Over the decade spanning the 1830s, the Flathead tribe of Montana on four separate occasions sent representatives to St. Louis in search of black-robed priests and teachers. An ethnohistorical approach to previously published accounts by fur traders and missionaries, as well as available tribal myths, legends and oral histories, yields evidence that the Flathead sought spiritual assistance to fulfill the divine mission of the culture hero Coyote to promote harmonious relationships among all creatures, including their enemies, the Crows and Blackfeet. That vision also influenced which aspects of Christian faith and European culture they adopted and which they resisted.
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