Creating Christian Indians
Subtitle: native clergy in the Presbyterian Church
By: Bonnie Sue Lewis.
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Norman, Okla
Language: eng
Number of pages: 281
Subjects: Indian Presbyterians -- History; Presbyterian Church -- West (U.S.) -- Clergy -- History; Presbyterian Church -- Missions -- West (U.S.) -- History; Dakota Indians -- Missions; Nez Percé Indians -- Missions
Description: "Creating Christian Indians takes issue with the widespread consensus that missions to North American indigenous peoples routinely destroyed native cultures and that becoming Christian was fundamentally incompatible with retaining traditional Indian identities"--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-267) and index.