| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 37.1

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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. xi + 243 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $45.00, cloth; $22.95, paper.)

Throughout most of the nineteenth century Protestant and Catholic missionaries endeavored unsuccessfully to convert the Osage Indians to Christianity. Willard Rollings points out that the Osages were an adaptable people who practiced a complex traditional religion. Although they adopted some Catholic rites, these were only superficial aspects of Christian ceremonies. Their rich liturgy and intricate rituals satisfied the Osages perfectly, and they had no need for Christianity. This account of Osage resistance to the gospel complements Rollings's The Osage: An Ethnohistorical Study of Hegemony on the Prairie-Plains (Columbia, MO, 1992), which describes the tribe's eighteenth- and nineteenth-century political and economic dominance of large portions of Missouri, Kansas, and Oklahoma. In this new book, Rollings reiterates that the Osages often dealt severely with enemy tribes, but wisely relied on nonviolent resistance in encounters with missionaries and other white intruders into their territory.

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