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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