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The Gods of Indian Country - Religion and the Struggle for the American West (Paperback)
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During the nineteenth century, white Americans sought the cultural
transformation and physical displacement of Native people. Though
this process was certainly a clash of rival economic systems and
racial ideologies, it was also a profound spiritual struggle. The
fight over Indian Country sparked religious crises among both
Natives and Americans. In The Gods of Indian Country, Jennifer
Graber tells the story of the Kiowa Indians during Anglo-Americans'
hundred-year effort to seize their homeland. Like Native people
across the American West, Kiowas had known struggle and dislocation
before. But the forces bearing down on them-soldiers, missionaries,
and government officials-were unrelenting. With pressure mounting,
Kiowas adapted their ritual practices in the hope that they could
use sacred power to save their lands and community. Against the
Kiowas stood Protestant and Catholic leaders, missionaries, and
reformers who hoped to remake Indian Country. These activists saw
themselves as the Indians' friends, teachers, and protectors. They
also asserted the primacy of white Christian civilization and the
need to transform the spiritual and material lives of Native
people. When Kiowas and other Native people resisted their designs,
these Christians supported policies that broke treaties and
appropriated Indian lands. They argued that the gifts bestowed by
Christianity and civilization outweighed the pains that accompanied
the denial of freedoms, the destruction of communities, and the
theft of resources. In order to secure Indian Country and control
indigenous populations, Christian activists sanctified the economic
and racial hierarchies of their day. The Gods of Indian Country
tells a complex, fascinating-and ultimately heartbreaking-tale of
the struggle for the American West.
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