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- Chapter 5-looking West
- Christian Missionaries
- Early 1800s people were excited about religion
- Church was the center of village life
- They sang songs, had revivals, and sent
missionaries all over the world including the
WEST - Missionaries tried to teach how to read the Bible
and dress, speak, and live like Christian
Americans - The Request for Christianity
- a. In 1831 the Nez Perce and the Flathead
Tribes asked to learn more about the whites
religion. - b. They hope to learn the ways of the white
people and the ways of their powerful god. - c. The story was printed in a religious paper
and the news spread and whites got excited.
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- 3. Methodist Missionaries
- Jason Lee and his Nephew Daniel Lee, Methodist
Ministers were the first to answer the request
from the Nez Perce. - John McLoughlin (Hudson Bay Company) advised
them to settle in Willamette Valley - The Lees converted few Indian.
- natives did not take to white religion or
lifestyle, and their children did not like the
strict schools - Jason Lee goes back east and gets 50 more
settlers - Lee spends his time setting up a new government
for settlers and does little with Indians. - He is accused of neglecting the Indians and his
mission was closed.
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- 4. Catholic Missionaries
- some members of the Hudson Bay Company were
Catholic and wanted fathers to come. - Father Francis Blanchet came and spent time with
the French and not the Indians. - Peter John de Smet and other priest came and
worked with the Coeur dAlenes and Flatheads. - many of these Indians were Baptized Christian and
mixed their own religion with that of their new
religion.
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- 5. Presbyterian Missionaries
- Narcissa and Marcus Whitman were married so they
could open a mission in the Oregon Country - Only married people were sent on missions
- They planned to open a mission in the Rocky
Mountains - Henry and Eliza Spalding joined them on the trail
to open a mission for Indians - The 4 traveled with a fur party to the Oregon
country - it took 207 days and included a lot of walking
- Eliza and Narcissa were the first white women to
travel across the entire continent - Dr. McLoughlin helped them with supplies and
recommend where to build their mission.
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F. The 2 couples did not get along on the trip
and decided to make 2 missions G. The Spalding
built their mission by the Clear River with the
Nez Perce. H. The Whitman's built on the Walla
Walla River among the Cayuse Indians
- 6. More Missionaries
- 2 years later more couples joined the Whitmans
making a small community - Mary and Elkanah Walker and Myra and Cushing
Eells built missions among the Spokane Indians
(near present day Spokane) - They built log houses, schools, and taught N.A.
men and women to - Raise animals, grow harvest crops, grind wheat
and flour, weave wool into cloth - they translated the Bible into N.A. languages so
they could teach them to read. - Letter took up to 2 years to get, they had to go
by ship.
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- 7. Missionary Children
- Children born at the missions were the first
American children born in the region - The Whitmans adopted 16 children
- Disease and Death
- Indians had no immunity to European diseases.
- Smallpox, measles, cholera, influenza (flu), and
malaria. - Entire villages were killed by the sicknesses
- In 1847 almost 5,000 Am. Pioneers came through
the Whitman mission. - Many travelers had measles as they came through
- A few whites died from the sickness
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- D. At the same time the Coastal Indians also got
the measles. (from immigrants) - E. Over 50 of the Cayuse tribe died from the
diseases that the pioneers/immigrants brought
through - They blamed Dr. Whitman who had saved a few
whites but could not help the N.A. - After many deaths and some bad information the
Cayuse attacked the Mission and killed Marcus and
Narcissa Whitman and 11 others - They took 47 women and children hostages
- After talking to Hudson Bay officials they traded
the hostages for blankets, shirts, tobacco, and
guns - 500 white volunteers formed a militia (army) and
the1st INDIAN WARS started. - The Cayuse wars lasted 2 years
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