The Jesus Road: Kiowas, Christianity, and Indian Hymns [With CD]

by Ralph Kotay, Clyde Ellis, Luke Eric Lassiter

Book Overview

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 among 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 began with the arrival of missionaries on the Kiowa-Comanche-Apache...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080328005X
• ISBN13: 9780803280052
• Release Date: May 2002
• Publisher: Bison Books
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.7" x 8.2"