Church

Today we went to a Presbyterian Church...and doubled the number of people there. This 8 person a sunday attendance, however, is not uncommon to the churches I have seen on the reservation, whether conservative or liberal or fundamentalist or low-church or whatever. Perhaps the Churches here are feeling the backlash against the association of Christianity with Western (White American) thought. As I reflected on the service today, I realized that little was Indian outside of two hymns we sang in Lakota. The translations, the "liturgy", and the other hymns were not "Lakotan." At the same time, the people (across the reservation) remain intensely spiritually and sun-dances are booming in popularity.