Moon of Wintertime: Missionaries and the Indians of Canada n Encounter since 1534

Notes: "John Webster Grant, an accomplished historian of religion in Canada, examines four and a half centuries of missionary and Indian contact". "By the nineteenth century, missionaries assumed that Indians had to adopt European religion and civilization. Considerable energy in education and religion aimed at preparing Indians for 'Christian citizenship'." "In the twentieth century, continued changes put pressure on Indian ways and old missionary approaches were less effective. Indians never entirely supported Christianity at the exclusion of other ideas, but missionaries were unprepared for the degree to which they embraced new religious ideas, and found new life for the old Indian religions. In Grant's view, since missions have been valuable for so many Indians, missionaries should encourage rather than resist these moves toward an indigenous Christianity".

Subjects: Indians of North America - Canada - Missions - History - Book reviews; Indians of North America - Canada - Religion - Book reviews; Christianity - Missions - Canada - History - Book reviews; Missions - Canada - History - Book reviews; Native peoples - Canada - Missions - History - Book reviews