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De Smet, Pierre Jean (1801–1870)| Belgium-born US Jesuit missionary. He worked as a missionary to American Indian peoples, founding mission stations. He helped to negotiate peace after the Mormon War and effected a truce with Sitting Bull. The peoples trusted him and called him ‘Blackrobe’. |
| Born in Termonde, Belgium, he went to the USA in 1821. |
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