| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 91.2

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Book Review

Around the Sacred Fire: Native Religious Activism in the Red Power Era. By James Treat. (New York: Palgrave, 2003. 376 pp. $35.00, ISBN 1-4039-6103-4.)
As promised in a jacket blurb by Vine Deloria Jr., James Treat's Around the Sacred Fire" rescue[s] an important area of Indian activism that has gone virtually unnoticed—the Indian ecumenical conference." This is an important contribution, for the "Red Power Era" cannot be understood without understanding the ecumenical gatherings organized by the Cherokee anthropologist Robert K. Thomas and others throughout the 1960s and 1970s.	1
Overall, Treat does a magnificent job of excavating the history of the ecumenical conference and illuminating key personalities involved. On this basis, his study is well worth the read and will no doubt assume its rightful place as a standard reference. Were this all there was to it, the book would be exemplary. There are tremendous problems, however, regarding how Treat interprets the information he deploys. In fact, at times he seems to have been motivated by ideological ax-grinding.	. . .

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