Their Work Was Never Done: Women Missionaries on the Kiowa-Comanche Reservation
Description:
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.
Date:
Spring 1986
Creator:
Herring, Rebecca
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Oklahoma Historical Society