Catholicism and Native Americans in Early North America

Kathleen Deagan is Distinguished Research Curator Emerita and Lockwood Professor Emerita of Caribbean and Florida Archaeology at the University of Florida's Florida Museum of Natural History. She received the J. C. Harrington Award from the Society for Historical Archaeology in 2004. Deagan is co-author of Columbus's Outpost among the Taínos and co-author of Fort Mose: Colonial America's Black Fortress of Freedom.

• A Word to the Reader by Santiago Cabanas, Ambassador of Spain to the United StatesForeword by Cándido Creís Estrada, Former Consul General of SpainIntroduction by Kathleen Deagan1. St. Augustine's Parishioners: The Heart of the Community by Susan Parker2. Death and Burial in Spanish St. Augustine by Kathleen Deagan3. Mission And Shrine, Nombre De Dios and Nuestra Señora de la Leche y Buen Parto, 1587-1763 by Kathleen Deagan4. Georgia's Long-Lost Spanish Missions by David Hurst Thomas5. Legacies of Literacies: Fray Francisco Pareja and Timucuan Communities in Colonial Spanish Florida by George A. Broadwell and Timothy I. Johnson6. Doctrinas and Visitas among the Mocama by Keith Ashley7. Spanish Missions of North-Central Florida by Gifford Waters8. Apalachee Province by Rochelle Marrinan9. The Dream of an Order: Pedro Menéndez de Aviles and the Catholic Church in Florida by Juan Antonio Crespo-Francés

"Catholicism and Native Americans in Early North America is a major contribution to understanding the impacts and outcomes of Spanish-American colonial presence and the profound cultural impacts of Catholic policies and practice in colonial America." —Russell K. Skowronek, co-editor of Ceramic Production in Early Hispanic California"Catholicism and Native Americans in Early North America is a must-have for anyone studying the missions or religion of the Spanish borderlands of North America." —Lee M. Panich, author of Narratives of Persistence