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PNW Missionaries

PNW Missionaries. Catholics and Protestants. Savetheyardbird.com. Agenda Review vocab Protestants Goals/motivations Key players Catholics Successes/reasons Key players. Vocab and importance Christianity Protestant Roman Catholic Animism Medicine Man. Christianity (start writing)

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PNW Missionaries

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  1. PNW Missionaries Catholics and Protestants

  2. Savetheyardbird.com

  3. Agenda • Review vocab • Protestants • Goals/motivations • Key players • Catholics • Successes/reasons • Key players

  4. Vocab and importance • Christianity • Protestant • Roman Catholic • Animism • Medicine Man

  5. Christianity (start writing) • Widespread in PNW since 19th century • Christians established churches and missions • Converted/attempted to convert natives • Now: Christianity not as dominant as more religions move in

  6. Protestant • A branch of Christianity • Had specific goals with missions (more on that later) • Provided a service to trappers/traders/settlers/children

  7. Roman Catholic • Also established missions • More successful at converting than Protestants • Less focused on settling than Protestants • Traveled with the natives • Many French Canadians living in PNW were Roman Catholic

  8. Animism • Strongly held view that clashed with new ideas brought by missionaries

  9. Medicine Man • Native concept • Idea clashed with what missionaries’ expected of their doctors • Natives had different expectations of Marcus Whitman than he had of self • Led to significant conflict

  10. Protestants • Goals/objectives • Christianize • Civilize • Develop economy • Religious services for non-natives • Strengthen U.S. claim • Beat the Catholics to the natives • Educate (natives, settlers, trappers, traders)

  11. Key players • Jason and Daniel Lee (read “Lee’s Mission” on pages 158, 159) • The Spaldings (read “The Spaldings” on pages 160) • Marcus and Narcissa Whitman (read “The Whitmans” on pages 160, 161)

  12. Catholics • More successful at converting natives • Reasons • Did not encourage more settlement • Use of the Catholic Ladder (page 155) • Rituals • MORE missions (page 156, map 7-1) • Less cultural interference • Traveled amongst natives

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