<i>Engaging the American Past</i >












Summer Institute

We the Diverse People: Cultural Encounters in the Pacific Northwest

Sacred Encounters:

Father Desmet and the Indians of the Rocky Mountian West

Suggested Supplementary Readings


Carriker, Robert. Father DeSmet: A Biography.

Frey, Rodney, ed. Stories That Make the World: Oral Literature of the Indian Peoples of the Inland Northwest as Told by Lawrence Aripa, Tom Yellowtail, and Other Elders.

Jeffrey, Julie Roy. Converting the West: A Biography of Narcissa Whitman.

Killoren, John J. "Come Blackrobe": DeSmet and the Indian Tragedy.

Miller, Christopher. Prophetic Worlds: Indians and Whites on the Columbia Plateau.

Peterson, Jacqueline, with Laura Peers. Sacred Encounters: Father DeSmet and the Indians of the Rocky Mountain West.

Point, Nicholas. Wilderness Kingdom.

Slickpoo, Alan. Noon-Nee-Me-Poo: Culture and History of the Nez Perces.

Vibert, Elizabeth. Traders' Tales: Narratives of Cultural Encounters in the Columbia Plateau, 1807-1846.

Wyatt, Victoria. Shapes of their Thoughts: Reflections of Culture Contact in Northwest Coast Indian Art.




Themes and topics explored in the 2003 Summer Institute can be found here.


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