Bridging Worlds: The Ambiguities of la mission ambulante with the Métis, Plains Cree and Blackfoot during the Great Transformation (1860-1880)

This article concerns the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate and their interactions with the Métis, the Plains Cree and the Blackfoot in the prairie region of the Northwest. Specifically, it examines la mission ambulante or the bison hunt mission. While some historians perceived this type of miss...

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Auteur principal: Giguère, Mario (Auteur)
Type de support: Électronique Article
Langue:Anglais
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Publié: Equinox Publ. 2018
Dans: Religious studies and theology
Année: 2018, Volume: 37, Numéro: 2, Pages: 178-205
Sujets non-standardisés:B Cree (North American People)
B Blackfoot (North American People)
B Oblates of Mary Immaculate
B Métis (North American People)
B Alberta
B Alberta—history
B history of Christian missions
B Religious societies—history
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Résumé:This article concerns the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate and their interactions with the Métis, the Plains Cree and the Blackfoot in the prairie region of the Northwest. Specifically, it examines la mission ambulante or the bison hunt mission. While some historians perceived this type of mission as a form of strategy or tactic for conversion in a region that was more nomadic than settled, this article argues how Indigenous people demonstrated agency and autonomy in their interactions with the missionaries. This article seeks to define la mission ambulante as a dialogical space for the exchange of knowledge, cultural practices and world views, and also one that linked networks of communication, diplomacy, and identity in creative and often misunderstood ways.
ISSN:1747-5414
Contient:Enthalten in: Religious studies and theology
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1558/rsth.37601