PNW Missionaries

Catholics and Protestants

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• 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)– 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

• Protestant– A branch of Christianity– Had specific goals with missions (more on that

later)– Provided a service to

trappers/traders/settlers/children

• 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

• Animism– Strongly held view that clashed with new ideas

brought by missionaries

• 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

• 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)

• 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)

• 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