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Article: "AND THE STONES SHALL CRY OUT": NATIVE AMERICAN IDENTITY IN THE LAWRENCE INDIAN UNITED METHODIST CHURCH [*].
- Article from:
- Journal of Ecumenical Studies
- Article date:
- June 22, 1999
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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 predated 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 assimliationistic for a century-and-a-half, but Methodist leaders became ...
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