| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 34.4

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Book Review

Father Francis M. Craft: Missionary to the Sioux. By Thomas W. Foley. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2002. xvi + 195 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliographical index. $45.00, £34.50.)

The author has used the journals of Father Craft, consisting of three volumes for the period 1888–1890, together with letters and newspaper accounts, to portray Craft and his effort to establish an order of Benedictine Indian Sisters. Craft failed: both Agent James McLaughlin at Standing Rock and Joseph A. Stephan, director of the Bureau of Catholic Indian Missions threw obstacles in Craft's way. Foley says that McLaughlin "used Craft's absence from Standing Rock to actively undermine the priest's strategy to staff the Fort Berthold mission with Indian Benedictine sisters" (p. 100). Bishop John Shanley of Jamestown, North Dakota, was mildly interested in founding a new order of Indian sisters, but only as an experiment. However, Father Stephan "actively opposed the priest's endeavor and refused to fund any part of it at all" (p. 105). Likely the Catholic hierarchy was racist in responding to Craft's proposal.

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