| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 92.2

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Book Review

Unaffected by the Gospel: Osage Resistance to the Christian Invasion (1673–1906); a Cultural Victory. By Willard Hughes Rollings. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2004. xii, 243 pp. Cloth, $45.00, ISBN 0-8263-3557-8. Paper, $22.95, ISBN 0-82633558-6.)

In this, his second book on the Osage Indians, Willard Hughes Rollings persuasively presents an unambiguous thesis: the Osage people rejected the nineteenth-century attempts of both Protestant and Catholic missionaries to convert them to Christianity. They were able to do so because their cultural and spiritual lifeways were robust and flexible. In early chapters, Rollings describes how the expansive Osages seized control of the territory between the Missouri and Red rivers, maintained primary settlements in southwest Missouri and northeast Oklahoma, and managed to avoid conflict with the Spanish and French. After 1803, he notes, United States authority brought special challenges to the Osage, among them Christian missionaries, who, emboldened by the revival fires of the Second Great Awakening, wanted to share the gospel with them.

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