The Gods of Indian Country: Religion and the Struggle for the American West

ISBN-13: 9780190279615 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 312 str.

Jennifer Graber

Opis

During the nineteenth century, Anglo-Americans inflicted cultural and economic devastation on Native people. The fight over Indian Country sparked spiritual crises for both Natives and Settlers. In the end, the experience of intercultural encounter and conflict over land produced religious transformations on both sides.

Recenzje

The conquest of the Great Plains was not simply a contest for land but a battle over spirituality as well. In her eloquent and beautifully crafted The Gods of Indian Country, Jennifer Graber highlights the experience of the Kiowa in their collision with an expansive United States, but her study raises questions at the heart of the indigenous encounter with American settler colonialism.

O autorze

Jennifer Graber is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Texas at Austin and an affiliated faculty member in the Native American and Indigenous Studies Program.