Their Work Was Never Done: Women Missionaries on the Kiowa-Comanche Reservation

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Article describes the lives of women missionaries on the Kiowa-Comanche Reservation, exploring the attitudes and motivations that drove them to the mission schools where they promoted Christianity, education, and assimilation. Rebecca Herring explores personal narratives of specific women and the struggles they faced, as well as the disregard some held for Native American traditions.

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Herring, Rebecca Spring 1986.

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  • Main Title: Their Work Was Never Done: Women Missionaries on the Kiowa-Comanche Reservation
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Article describes the lives of women missionaries on the Kiowa-Comanche Reservation, exploring the attitudes and motivations that drove them to the mission schools where they promoted Christianity, education, and assimilation. Rebecca Herring explores personal narratives of specific women and the struggles they faced, as well as the disregard some held for Native American traditions.

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Abstract: Set against a skillful description of Indian policy and religious fervor in the late nineteenth century, Rebecca Herring uses intimate first person narratives to explore the motives and day-to-day experiences of women missionaries on the Kiowa-Comanche Reservation.

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  • Chronicles of Oklahoma, 64(1), Oklahoma Historical Society, 1986, pp. 68-83

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  • Publication Title: Chronicles of Oklahoma
  • Volume: 64
  • Issue: 1
  • Page Start: 68
  • Page End: 83

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Herring, Rebecca. Their Work Was Never Done: Women Missionaries on the Kiowa-Comanche Reservation, article, Spring 1986; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc2031524/: accessed May 23, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.

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