This book traces the history of the relationship between the Coeur d'Alene Indian people of northern Idaho and the Roman Catholic missionary order of the Jesuits (Society of Jesus) from the mid-nineteenth century to contemporary times. It is a unique account in that Dr. Fortier is himself a former Jesuit and served as a priest among the Coeur d'Alene while simultaneously conducting anthropological fieldwork on Indian-Catholic cultural identity, religion and socio-economic change.