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Book Review
| Creating Christian Indians: Native Clergy in the Presbyterian Church. By Bonnie Sue Lewis. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2003. xx, 281 pp. $34.95, ISBN 0-8061-3516-6.)
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| Recently, historians have broadly reconsidered the history of missions among Native American peoples, viewing such encounters with an eye to what Native peoples did with the Christian tradition rather than simply telling the stories of what missionary Christianity did to Native communities. In Creating Christian Indians, Bonnie Sue Lewis revisits the history of missions and Christianity among the Dakota and Nez Percé communities and contributes to this literature of reappraisal in at least two ways. |
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