The Colonial Compromise

Preface............................................................. A "Real Blanket Indian": A Short Biography of Tink Tinker Loring Abeyta ............................................................................ Chapter 1: Christianity, Compromise and Colonialism as Existential Threats to Indigenous Peoples Edward P. Antonio............................................................................ Chapter 2: Faith and Facts: Dismantling Colonial Constructions Natsu Taylor Saito.......................................................................... Chapter 3: "Words Have Meaning" Reflections on a Vector of Tink Tinker's Indigenist Scholarship Ward Churchill............................................................................. Chapter 4: At Cross-Purposes: Conversion, Conscripted Compromise, and the Logic of Eurochristian Religious Poetics Roger K. Green.................................................................................. Chapter 5: I'm an Indian Too Miguel A. De La Torre...................................................................... Chapter 6: Niin Naandamo: The Cultural Logics of Kingship and the Theological Detour of Prayer Mark D. Freeland............................................................................. Chapter 7: Impostor God: De-Christianization Barbara Alice Mann........................................................................ Chapter 8: On the Use of the Bible for Mental Colonization Steven T. Newcomb........................................................................... Chapter 9: Jesus, the Gospel, and Genocide Tink Tinker....................................................................................... Bibliography..................................................................................... About the Contributors ................................................................................