| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 107.1

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Canada and the United States

Michael D. McNally. Ojibwe Singers: Hymns, Grief, and a Native Culture in Motion. (Religion in America Series.) New York: Oxford University Press. 2000. Pp. xiv, 248. $45.00.

Thoughtful scholars of the indigenous peoples of the Americas, Africa, and Asia have for some years now observed that Christianity was both a tool of oppression brought by European colonizers and a weapon that the colonized could wield in their own defense. In a complex, deeply theoretical work, Michael D. McNally probes this paradox by examining traditions of native-language hymn singing in Minnesota Ojibwe communities that came to find themselves on the White Earth Reservation. While he considers numerous issues, ranging from colonialism's everyday legacy of poverty and violence on the reservation to inadequately conceptualized views of Native American religions as either pristinely aboriginal or as postcontact and impure, McNally's primary concern is with Native Christianity as a legitimate religious expression that is both "Native" and "Christian," a second paradox that scholars have been less able to recognize but which a hymn-singing tradition neatly captures. . . .

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