The Jesus Road: Kiowas, Christianity, and Indian Hymns

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In this highly original and moving volume, an anthropologist, a historian, and a Native singer come together to reveal the personal and cultural power of Christian faith a few of the Kiowas of southwestern Oklahoma and to show how Christian members of the Kiowa community have creatively embraced hymns and made them their own.

Kiowas practice a unique expression of Christianity, a blending that started with the arrival of missionaries at the Kiowa-Comanche-Apache Reservation in the 1870s. In these pages, historian Clyde Ellis offers a compelling have a look at the way in which many Kiowas became Christian during the last century and have woven that faith into their identity. The personal and cultural significance of traditional songs and their close connection to the power of hymns is then illuminated by anthropologist Luke Eric Lassiter. Like traditional Kiowa songs, Christian hymns assist restore and minister to the community; they also may also be highly individualistic since many are composed and shared by church members themselves at different times in their lives. In the final section of the book Kiowa singer Ralph Kotay tells of the personal meaning and value of the hymns and of the Christian faith on the whole.

This remarkable, sensitive book makes the most important contribution to our understanding of the complexity of Native lives lately and offers a subtle yet penetrating have a look at the legacy of Christianity among Native peoples.


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