Around the Sacred Fire: Native Religious Activism in the Red Power Era.
New York and Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan / St. Martin's Press, 2003.
Paperback edition, Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2008.
Finalist, Oklahoma
Book Award, 2004.
Contexts
Chapter One "Spiritual Revival for Indians"
Traditional Movement •
Unity Convention • Intertribal Solidarity • Spiritual Revolution
Chapter Two "Disharmony and Religious Feuds"
Cherokee Prophecy • Action
Anthropology • Cross-Cultural Education • Ecumenical Personality
Chapter Three "The Churches Must Listen"
Anglican Missions • Indian
Work • Hendry Report • Clerical Activists
Chapter Four "About Saving the World"
Rochdale College • Indian
Studies • Ecumenical Conference • Buckskin Curtain
Conversations
Chapter Five "Modern Indian Religious Life"
Steering Committee • Crow
Agency • Interreligious Organization
Consequences
Chapter Six "These Hills and Mountains"
Stoney Country • Ordained
Chief • Indian Park • Sacred Fire
Chapter Seven "Dissatisfaction Evidenced by Some"
Growing Concern • Crash
Course • Battle Royal • Liberation Process
Chapter Eight "This Sacred Event Interrupted"
Ideological Investment •
Divine Disapproval • Elaborate Representations • Numinous Encounters
Chapter Nine "To Implement Meaningful Change"
Personal Transformations •
Impending Obsolescence • Tarnished Reputation • Lingering Embers
Epilogue "Teachings from This Fire"
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
© 2008 by James Treat