Program

Public Programs: Humanities Projects in Museums and Historical Organizations

Period of Performance

8/1/1991 - 6/30/1995

Funding Totals (outright + matching)

$700,000.00 (approved)
$700,000.00 (awarded)


Sacred Encounters: Jesuit Missionaries and the Indians of the Rocky Mountain West

FAIN: GM-24448-91

Washington State University (Pullman, WA 99164-0001)
Jacqueline Peterson (Project Director: December 1990 to March 1996)

To support a traveling exhibition, a catalog, and public programs interpreting the life of Father Pierre De Smet, 1801-73, and the encounter of native American and Roman Catholic cultures on the western frontier.