| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 90.4

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Father Francis M. Craft: Missionary to the Sioux. By Thomas W. Foley. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2002. xviii, 195 pp. $45.00,ISBN 0-8032-2015-4.)
Thomas W. Foley, a retired labor personnel executive, hit the proverbial jackpot in 1944 while rummaging through his Aunt Mame's Chicago apartment. Here he found the handwritten work of Father Francis M. Craft, including journals and letters, and newspaper accounts covering his stay at Standing Rock Sioux Agency from 1888 to 1890. During the 1960s Foley began to transcribe the materials his aunt had passed on to him. Retirement gave him time to complete his research, and shortly after the turn of the century he produced this book.	1
Craft proved to be a controversial figure who stubbornly went about his own duties as he saw them and displayed little room for disagreement concerning his views and actions. Born in 1852, he saw military action in the American Civil War, the Franco-Prussian War, and the Cuban conflicts of 1868–1876. He also studied medicine, studied philosophy at the College of Louvain in Belgium, and spent three years at West Point Military Academy. At twenty-three he joined the Jesuit order and later became a Catholic missionary. Part Mohawk himself, he made his way to the western American Indians where he served the Sioux in the Dakotas.	. . .

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