| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 88.2

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Book Review

Memory Eternal: Tlingit Culture and Russian Orthodox Christianity through Two Centuries. By Sergei Kan. (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1999. xxxii, 665 pp. $60.00, ISBN 0-295-97806-6.)

Indigenous Christianity presents scholars with a conundrum. Historians and ethnohistorians have done a great deal to document the degree to which church officials often worked hand in glove with other agents of colonial powers and sought to undermine indigenous spirituality. That a significant number of indigenous people have remained active in the Christian churches appears, therefore, to be at odds with colonialism and with the legacy of church-based initiatives to suppress aboriginal cultures. 1

Sergei Kan, a well-known scholar of Tlingit ethnography, has tackled that perplexing issue in a seminal study of the relationship between Tlingit culture and Russian Orthodox Christianity. Taking a long and broad view of the connection, Kan documents the intense social, political, cultural, and spiritual relationship that evolved between the "foreign" church and the Tlingit people, capitalizing on his strong ties to the community to gain important insights into contemporary Tlingit views of Orthodox Christianity. He has, as well, blended the insights of Tlingit elders with the analytical frameworks provided by social theorists. . . .

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