Book Review: Around the Sacred Fire: Native Religious Activism in the Red Power Era

Authors

Francis Guth, Algoma University College

Date of this Version

2004

Document Type

Article

Comments

Published in Great Plains Quarterly 24:3 (Summer 2004). Copyright © 2004 Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska–Lincoln.

Abstract

This important book details the continent-wide, including Great Plains, efforts of Native Americans in the 1970s and 1980s to revive and unify Native spirituality and bring it to terms with Christianity. The subtitle alerts us that these efforts were largely overshadowed by more militant "Red Power" movements.