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- Title
"And the Stones Shall Cry Out": Native American Identity in The Lawrence Indian United Methodist Church[sup*].
- Authors
David Ortiz, Leonard
- Abstract
PRECIS Can Native Americans respect and preserve their own cultural traditions and also be Christian? Native American culture is multifaceted, with between 250 and 400 language groups among those indigenous to North America. They share some basic values, including love and concern for family and community, that long pre-dated the arrival of Christianity. This essay seeks to demonstrate how Indians within the United Methodist Church have made choices that maintain their tribal heritage and culture and incorporate them into Christian worship. Missionizing of North American Indians was largely assimilationistic for a century-and-a-half, but Methodist leaders became concerned about Indian cultural identity after the 1960's civil-rights movement. The Lawrence (KS) Indian United Methodist Church is used as a case study of how this mission church, chartered in 1963, reached a cultural awareness that flourished in the mid-1970's and continues today. The church's relationship with Indian youth and with the Haskell Indian Nations University is also examined.
- Subjects
RELIGION &; culture; UNITED Methodist Church (U.S.); INDIGENOUS peoples of the Americas -- Religion
- Publication
Journal of Ecumenical Studies, 1999, Vol 36, Issue 3/4, p363
- ISSN
0022-0558
- Publication type
Article