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- Title
The Whitman Massacre.
- Authors
Addis, Cameron
- Abstract
Studies the Whitman Massacre on the Columbia Plateau in 1847. Symbolic importance of the tragedy because it happened at a Christian settlement just as the region opened up to Americans; Religion and manifest destiny on the Columbia Plateau from 1809 to 1858; Weaknesses of the plateau and Christian religions; Cayuse religion’s overreliance on a supernatural framework to interpret all phenomena; Measles epidemic that wiped out over half the Cayuse people; Suggestion that the missionaries’ inflexibility and obsession with damnation alienated the Cayuses, feeding their suspicions just as their lands were being overrun.
- Subjects
COLUMBIA Plateau; MASSACRES; ATROCITIES; RELIGION; CAYUSE (North American people); CHRISTIANITY; CAYUSE War, 1847-1850
- Publication
Journal of the Early Republic, 2005, Vol 25, Issue 2, p221
- ISSN
0275-1275
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/jer.2005.0023