A Request for Missionaries
Besides hunting for food, Indian hunters began killing animals to get this.
What is their furs?
These were men and women who came to teach their way of life and religion to Native Americans.
Who were missionaries?
This is what Dr. McLoughlin asked Narcissa Whitman to do.
What is help teach music to his daughter and the other children?
The Catholic priests taught these two things.
What are Bible stories and prayers?
What is a tragedy?
What are metal knives and axes?
This has to do with beliefs about God.
What is religion?
These were the married couples who came west with some fur traders to teach their religion to Indians.
Who are the Whitmans and the Spaldings?
This is why Catholic missions were easier for the Indians to accept.
What is they did not try to make big changes in the Indians' way of life?
This is sickness.
What is disease?
Indians thought learning about this would help them understand the white people's ways.
What is the traders' religion?
The missionaries were the first Americans to do this in the Northwest.
What is build homes and stay?
The missionaries' days were filled with these four things.
What are praying, teaching, farming, and doing many chores?
She was the best known Catholic missionary in the Northwest?
Who is Mother Joseph?
This is a home for children who have no parents.
What is an orphanage?
This is who the Nez Perce and Flathead Indians wanted to talk to in St. Louis.
Who is Captain William Clark?
These brothers were the first to answer the request of the Nez Perce.
Who were Jason and Daniel Lee?
This was the family adopted by the Whitmans, after the parents died on the trip west.
Who are the Sagers?
This was Mother Joseph's birth name.
What is Esther Pariseau?
This is the violent murder of a large group of people.
What is massacre?
These are the two main things missionaries did (from the Key Ideas of Lesson 1).
What are they came to the Northwest to teach their religion to the Indians and built schools/orphanages?
Father Francis Blanchet, who answered the call for a Catholic priest, spent most of his time with this group of people.
What are trappers?
This is what the Cayuse Indians blamed Dr. Whitman for, and what led to the Whitman Massacre.
What is failing to make their people well (and even poisoning them)?
This is how long Providence Academy, one of Mother Joseph's finest buildings, has been standing in Vancouver.
What is 145 years?
This is to change another person's religious beliefs.
What is convert?