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From the prologue: ""The Indian Ecumenical Conference began during the fall of 1969 as an experiment in grassroots organizing among native spiritual leaders. Conference founders believed the survival of native communities would hinge on transcending the antagonisms between tribal and Christian traditions--a problem as old as the European colonization of the Americas--and they hoped to cultivate religious self-determination among native people by facilitating dialogue, understanding, and cooperation between diverse tribal nations and spiritual persuasions.""

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This important book details the continent-wide, including Great Plains, efforts of Native Americans in the 1970s and 1980s to revive and unify Native spirituality and bring it to terms with Christianity. --Great Plains Quarterly. Treat tells the story of this conference in a way that is authentic to both the events of this cultural reawakening and the narrative tradition of Native Americans. . . . This is a unique and powerful book. --Human Ecology Review.

In these times of culminating wars and spiritual devastation, this book provides a useful map of efforts to organize across intertribal and interreligious borders. The fire cooks our food, warms us, gives us light and movement. We need to be reminded . . . and the appearance of this book assures us that we will be. --Joy Harjo, Mvskoke poet and musician

Treat has rescued an important area of Indian activism that has gone virtually unnoticed--the Indian Ecumenical Conference. Gathering scattered documents and conducting personal interviews, he presents an exciting history of efforts by traditional people to offer their own solution to modern social problems. --Vine Deloria Jr., author of Custer Died for Your Sins This important book details the continent-wide, including Great Plains, efforts of Native Americans in the 1970s and 1980s to revive and unify Native spirituality and bring it to terms with Christianity. --Great Plains Quarterly In these times of culminating wars and spiritual devastation, this book provides a useful map of efforts to organize across intertribal and interreligious borders. The fire cooks our food, warms us, gives us light and movement. We need to be reminded . . . and the appearance of this book assures us that we will be. --Joy Harjo, Mvskoke poet and musician Treat tells the story of this conference in a way that is authentic to both the events of this cultural reawakening and the narrative tradition of Native Americans. . . . This is a unique and powerful book. --Human Ecology Review In unfolding the account of the Indian Ecumenical Conference, Treat forces the reader to abandon the long-held notion of the Red Power movement as a radical, confrontational, protest movement. Treat does a marvelous job in bringing out the issues involved in this period of Native American religious history. --American Studies International A hugely detailed historical, sociological, theological, and personal account of the Indian Ecumenical Conference. Highly recommended. --Choice A magnificent job of excavating the history of the ecumenical conference and illuminating key personalities involved. --Journal of American History The best book on American Indian religion published in the new millennium. --Christopher Vecsey, author of American Indian Catholics

In these times of culminating wars and spiritual devastation, this book provides a useful map of efforts to organize across intertribal and interreligious borders. The fire cooks our food, warms us, gives us light and movement. We need to be reminded . . . and the appearance of this book assures us that we will be. --Joy Harjo, Mvskoke poet and musician This important book details the continent-wide, including Great Plains, efforts of Native Americans in the 1970s and 1980s to revive and unify Native spirituality and bring it to terms with Christianity. --Great Plains Quarterly. Treat tells the story of this conference in a way that is authentic to both the events of this cultural reawakening and the narrative tradition of Native Americans. . . . This is a unique and powerful book. --Human Ecology Review. Treat has rescued an important area of Indian activism that has gone virtually unnoticed--the Indian Ecumenical Conference. Gathering scattered documents and conducting personal interviews, he presents an exciting history of efforts by traditional people to offer their own solution to modern social problems. Incisive and precise, this book opens additional vistas for the reader. --Vine Deloria, Jr., auhtor of God is Red and Custer Died for Your Sins

Treat has rescued an important area of Indian activism that has gone virtually unnoticed--the Indian Ecumenical Conference. Gathering scattered documents and conducting personal interviews, he presents an exciting history of efforts by traditional people to offer their own solution to modern social problems. Incisive and precise, this book opens additional vistas for the reader. --Vine Deloria, Jr., auhtor of God is Red and Custer Died for Your Sins This important book details the continent-wide, including Great Plains, efforts of Native Americans in the 1970s and 1980s to revive and unify Native spirituality and bring it to terms with Christianity. --Great Plains Quarterly. Treat tells the story of this conference in a way that is authentic to both the events of this cultural reawakening and the narrative tradition of Native Americans... This is a unique and powerful book. --Human Ecology Review. In these times of culminating wars and spiritual devastation, this book provides a useful map of efforts to organize across intertribal and interreligious borders. The fire cooks our food, warms us, gives us light and movement. We need to be reminded ... and the appearance of this book assures us that we will be. --Joy Harjo, Mvskoke poet and musician

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James Treat is an associate professor of religious studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and the editor of several books, including Writing the Cross Culture: Native Fiction on the White Man's Religion.

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