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Zealous in All Virtues: Documents of Worship and Culture Change, St. Ignatius Mission, Montana, 1890-1894

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St. Ignatius Mission on the Flathead Indian Reservation in western Montana was once a bustling place within the early 1890s. Each and every year well over 300 Native American students attended the universities and over a thousand tribal members and Indian visitors camped on the mission for the Christmas, Easter, and St. Ignatius Day celebrations. The mission was once also a training center for aspiring Jesuit priests. Here Indian students and parishioners learned useful skills and received spiritual consolation, at the same time as the missionaries worked to undermine valuable aspects of Salish and Kootenai culture.
 
Documents in Zealous in All Virtues describe the universities and the student exhibitions of drama, song, oratory, and music. Even if direct Indian reminiscences from the period have not survived, Zealous in All Virtues assembles government reports, newspaper accounts, St. Ignatius church records, letters from missionaries, and other sources to supply general readers and historians an intriguing glimpse into life at a nineteenth-century mission.

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