From the Great River to the Ends of the Earth: Oblate Missions to the Dene, 1847-1921 by Martha McCarthy

From the Great River to the Ends of the Earth: Oblate Missions to the Dene, 1847-1921

The Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate

Martha McCarthy

269 pages • first pub 1995 (editions)

challenging emotional reflective medium-paced
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Catholic missionaries originally saw the Mackenzie River as the heart of a vast kingdom of souls to be gained for God, whatever the claims of any other power to sovereignty. The Dene did not share this view. Martha McCarthy balances Dene oral trad...

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