Writing the Cross Culture Native Fiction on

"Where has Christianity influenced your life? Together, some of the most important native writers in the United States and Canada are revealing what the white man's religion has meant for them. In what can only be described as honest fiction, these engaging stories map the many twists and turns of the native encounter with the Christian faith."--BOOK JACKET.

James Treat teaches courses in Native studies, religious studies, and creative expression at the University of Illinois. He is the author of Around the Sacred Fire: Native Religious Activism in the Red Power Era and the editor of Native and Christian: Indigenous Voices on Religious Identity in the United States and Canada.

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Vine Deloria, Jr.

Report to the Nation: Claiming Europe

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Carter Revard

The Soft-Hearted Sioux

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Zitkala-Sa (Gertrude Bonnin)

As It Was in the Beginning

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E. Pauline Johnson

Millie

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Jody Barnes

Secular Revenge

32

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Basil Johnston

The Problem of Old Harjo

38

(8)

John M. Oskison

Letter to the Editor

46

(3)

Fus Fixico (Alexander Posey)

Summer Water and Shirley

49

(11)

Durango Mendoza

High Cotton

60

(8)

Rayna Green

Amen

68

(7)

Linda Hogan

A Death in the Family

75

(13)

Beth Brant

Katie's Flight

88

(6)

Vickie Sears

The Priest of the Sun

94

(13)

N. Scott Momaday

August

107

(3)

Irvin Morris

Talking Circle

110

(7)

Laurie Weahkee

Miracle at Chimayo

117

(7)

Robert L. Perea

Earl Yellow Calf

124

(5)

James Welch

Bertha's Cross

129

(11)

Steve Barse

Whispers from a Dead World

140

(4)

Joseph Little

Jesus Christ's Half-Brother Is Alive and Well on the Spokane Indian Reservation

144

(16)

Sherman Alexie

Manna and Quail

160

(7)

Dawn Karima Pettigrew

The Woman Who Fell from the Sky

167

(6)

Joy Harjo

The Alligator King

173

(4)

Diane Glancy

Killing Time

177

(11)

Sam Sandoval

Inscribing the Wound World: Human Fiction on the Spaceman's Religion

188

(7)

James Treat

Contributors, Sources, Acknowledgments

195

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Writing the Cross Culture Native Fiction on the White Man's Religion

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