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University of Michigan

Transposed Tales of a French Missionary Among Indians in the Oregon Country

For Students 9th - 10th
The author of this article writes of how letters written by French missionaries describing their experiences in Oregon in the 1800s, were greatly revised for publication in France, so that the narratives took on far more positive tones....
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National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Teacher Serve: Foreign Missionary Movement in the 19th and Early 20th Centuries

For Students 9th - 10th
Article detailing the movement aimed at converting non-European populations to Christianity during an age of Imperialsim and Western Dominance. Discussion on who the missionaries were and how they went about their missions. Includes...
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University of Florida

Baldwin Library: The Missionary in Many Lands by Erwin House

For Students 3rd - 5th
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book The Missionary in Many Lands by Erwin House (1861), a series of sketches of missionary life.
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Alberta Online Encyclopedia

Alberta Online Encyclopedia: Methodist Missionaries

For Students 9th - 10th
Who were the early missionaries? What were their mission sites? What is mission work? These questions, with many more, are addressed on this Methodist Missionaries website. In addition, maps of not only the missions, but early trade...
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Buddha Dharma Education Association

Buddha Net: Buddhist Missionaries

For Students 9th - 10th
BuddhaNet.net offers a short web-article that describes Buddhist missionary activity around the world.
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Alberta Online Encyclopedia

Alberta Online Encyclopedia: Methodist Missionaries in Alberta

For Students 9th - 10th
Following the arrival of European fur traders and explorers, Christianity and religion soon followed to convert the aboriginal peoples. churches and missionaries spread throughout the prairies.
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Bullock Texas State History Museum

Bullock Museum: Missionaries

For Students 9th - 10th
Immerse in the campfire stories of the people who defined Texas. Learn how small the separation between church and state in 17th century Spain affected Texas.
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BBC

Bbc: The Story of Africa: The Missionaries

For Students 9th - 10th
This article talks about the presence of European missionaries in 19th century Africa. It mentions the efforts of David Livingstone to try to suppress the slave trade. It offers examples of the humanitarian work done by other...
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Civil War Home

Home of the American Civil War: Missionary Ridge, 25 Nov. 63

For Students 9th - 10th
An account of the bloody battle of Missionary Ridge from "The Civil War Dictionary" by Mark Boatner III.
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University of Florida

Baldwin Library: Matty's Hungry Missionary Box

For Students 3rd - 5th
A scanned copy of the 1872 publication of Matty's Hungry Missionary-box by Emily Steele Elliott, a fiction book for children.
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Library of Congress

Loc: Today in History: February 16: Missionaries in the Oregon Territory

For Students 9th - 10th
This Library of Congress site briefly describes the missionary movement to Oregon, centering around Marcus Whitman.
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Other

Vatican Museums: Ethnological Missionary Museum

For Students 9th - 10th
The Ethnological Missionary Museum was founded in 1926. The present collection amounts to over 80,000 works made up of religious artifacts from four different geographical areas.
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Other

Evangelical Lutheran Church in America

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the homepage of the Evangelical Church in America and gives detailed information about the churches, missionaries, programs, and services provided by the ELCA.
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Other

Salem Online History: Jason Lee 1803 1845

For Students 9th - 10th
This website provides a brief biography of Jason Lee, early Methodist missionary and doctor and was the founder of Salem, Oregon.
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Alberta Online Encyclopedia

Alberta Online Encyclopedia: St. Vincent and St. Paul

For Students 9th - 10th
The history of Franco-Alberta is explored on this site through information about the fur trade, arrival of the missionaries, settlement, schooling, arts and culture and much more.
Primary
University of Pennsylvania

University of Pennsylvania: Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa

For Students 9th - 10th
Copies of the work by David Livingstone that can be downloaded at this site from the University of Pennsylvania. No additional information is given. Both text and zip files are available.
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Oklahoma State University

Oklahoma Historical Society: Missionary Tour in the Chickasaw Nation [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
A primary source account by a Catholic priest who visited and worked with the different Native American groups in the Indian Territory in 1885. He spent some time with the Chickasaw tribe.
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PBS

New Perspectives on the West: The Letters and Journals of Narcissa Whitman

For Students 9th - 10th
A few pages from the journal of Narcissa Whitman who was a missionary in the Oregon Country. She was later murdered along with her husband at the Whitman massacre.
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C3 Teachers

C3 Teachers: Inquiries: Imperialism

For Teachers 10th
A learning module on foreign imperialism in China that includes several supporting questions accompanied by formative tasks and source materials, followed by a summative performance task. Topics covered include the role of the Opium Wars...
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Other

American Journeys: French and English Approaches to Exploration [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A lengthy lesson plan that examines French and English approaches to exploration and colonization in reference to religious factors. Using primary sources from French missionary Gabriel Sagard and Wiliam Bradford, first governor of...
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New Advent

Catholic Encyclopedia: Pierre Jean De Smet

For Students 9th - 10th
Catholic Encyclopedia provides a biography on Pierre-Jean de Smet, discussing his missionary work. Please note that ?The Catholic Encyclopedia? is a historic reference source and should be viewed in the context of resource material dated...
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Nebraska Studies

Nebraska Studies: The Conversion Struggle

For Students 9th - 10th
The story of the problems on converting native Americans to a Christian religion. It uses the example of Christian missionaries who were trying to convert the Pawnee tribe in the 1830s.
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Curated OER

Etc: Maps Etc: Vicinity of Missionary Ridge and Lookout Mountain, 1863

For Students 9th - 10th
"Missionary Ridge and Lookout Mountain. These two sanguinary conflicts of the civil war were fought Nov. 23-25, 1863, between Gen. Bragg, Confederate, and Gens. Hooker and Rosecrans, Federal. The latter were completely victorious, and...
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Society of Archbishop Justus

Onesimos Nesib, Translator and Missionary: 21 June 1931

For Students 9th - 10th
A detailed introduction to the life and religious work of Onesimos Nesib. This is an excellent place to begin research on this Christian missionary.

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