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Catholic missionaries originally saw the Mackenzie River as the heart of a vast kingdom of souls to be gained for God, whatever the claims of any other power to sovereignty. The Dene did not share this view. Martha McCarthy balances Dene oral tradition with documentary sources to explore this important and difficult period in the developing relationships between Europeans and First Nations peoples in Canada.Martha McCarthy is the author of 'From the Great River to the Ends of the Earth (The Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate)', published 1995 under ISBN 9780888642639 and ISBN 0888642636.
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