Mohawk Saint is a biography of Tekakwitha that highlights the relations of Jesuits (and the French) with indigenous people. Personally, this wasn't my favourite read for the year. There's so little information out there on Catherine therefore Greer had to make a lot of educated guesses and suggestions about incidents in her life. I did appreciate Greer using a similar philosophy to that of Katherine DuVal; that Indians were not colonized by white people but had control over early interactions with Europeans. Relationships with the Jesuits would have been useful for political and commercial advantages. Greer covers European views of native women and the sexualization of native bodies. The interconnectedness of European religion and Indigenous relation in a syncretistic mix with Catherine was probably my favourite thing about Mohawk Saint .