biography
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De Smet, Pierre Jean
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| male
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| lived:
| (1801–70)
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| biography:
| Jesuit missionary, born in Termonde, Belgium. He went to the USA (1821), and in 1838 began his career as a missionary to the Indians of the Plains and the Northwest. He founded mission stations, helped to negotiate peace after the Mormon War (1857–8), and effected a truce with Sitting Bull (1868). The Indians trusted him, and called him ‘Blackrobe’. |
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