| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 109.1

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Bonnie Sue Lewis. Creating Christian Indians: Native Clergy in the Presbyterian Church. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press. 2003. Pp. xix, 281. $34.95.

There is an ongoing and often lively debate among American Indians over the question of whether one can be both Christian and Indian. Bonnie Sue Lewis joins the debate on the affirmative side with this book, and she marshals her evidence to demonstrate that Native Presbyterian ministers and their congregations among the Dakota and Nez Perce found Christianity to be a positive and fulfilling part of their lives. They recognized the similarity between their own values of loyalty, hospitality, and responsibility to community members and those taught by Jesus Christ and his apostles, and they found the same spiritual solace in the midst of a hostile environment that early Christians had found during their oppression under the Roman Empire. The acceptance of Christianity was strong among Dakota men imprisoned after what is generally referred to as the Great Sioux Uprising in Minnesota in 1862 and among Nez Perces who were being systematically stripped of reservation lands in Montana.

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