Review of The Sacred Pipe: An Archetypal Theology, by Paul B. Steinmetz.

Authors

Jordan Paper, York University, Toronto

Date of this Version

March 2000

Document Type

Article

Comments

Published in Great Plains Quarterly, Volume 20, Number 2, Spring 2000, pp. 169 - 170. © 2000 Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska – Lincoln.

Abstract

Father Steinmetz spent twenty years as a priest among the Oglala Lakota on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota collaborating with major Lakota Traditionalist-Catholic elders. Among the first to integrate indigenous rituals into Catholic practices following Vatican II, Steinmetz undertook a vision fast, through which he received an understanding that Christ was present in both the consecrated host and the Sacred Pipe. This volume follows several decades of reflection on this experience.