RT Article
T1 Bridging Worlds: The Ambiguities of la mission ambulante with the Métis, Plains Cree and Blackfoot during the Great Transformation (1860-1880)
JF Religious studies and theology
VO 37
IS 2
SP 178
OP 205
A1 Giguère, Mario
LA English
YR 2018
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1837301980
AB This article concerns the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate and their interactions with the Métis, the Plains Cree and the Blackfoot in the prairie region of the Northwest. Specifically, it examines la mission ambulante or the bison hunt mission. While some historians perceived this type of mission as a form of strategy or tactic for conversion in a region that was more nomadic than settled, this article argues how Indigenous people demonstrated agency and autonomy in their interactions with the missionaries. This article seeks to define la mission ambulante as a dialogical space for the exchange of knowledge, cultural practices and world views, and also one that linked networks of communication, diplomacy, and identity in creative and often misunderstood ways.
K1 Alberta
K1 Alberta—history
K1 Blackfoot (North American People)
K1 Cree (North American People)
K1 Métis (North American People)
K1 Oblates of Mary Immaculate
K1 Religious societies—history
K1 history of Christian missions
DO 10.1558/rsth.37601