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For many Americans, Christian missionary efforts have usually involved distant and exotic places. Sometimes, however, we can learn more about missions and inter-religious engagement by looking in our own backyard. This collection of essays deriving from a consultation on missionary history and attitudes in colonial Jamestown, Virginia, explores long-standing assumptions related to Christian mission by listening to Native American voices. What were the ideologies and theologies that motivated early Virginia colonists? How did certain understandings of mission and church provide support and legitimacy for invasion and exploitation? What were, and are, the responses of indigenous populations, and how should Christian mission to Native Americans continue in light of this history? This book addresses these still very relevant questions and explores ways in which new understandings of Christian mission are needed in the expanding religious and cultural diversity of the twenty-first century.
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Traditional Hand Drum Contest
Pine Nut Festival at the Walker River Paiute Rez.
While living with my family at Ft. McDermitt, Nevada, learning the Northern Paiute language and culture, we were befriended by Art and Ethel Cavanaugh, both well known singers of Traditional Northern Paiute and Shoshone Round Dance songs. One day we were singing a new prayer song they had written. Afterwards, Art asked if I would be interested in learning to sing their Traditional Round Dance songs to pass on to later generations. I told them I would be honored to do so and began a journey that continues to this day.
Although I began singing only to those who knew me on the rez, Art soon told me, “It’s time that you join the other singers at Tuba Nanesootuhi,” the Pine Nut Festival on the Walker River Paiute Reservation in Schurz, Nevada held each September. Following my first song there, I was told by Judy Trejo, another well known singer and songwriter, “Get back up there and sing another song.” After my second song she told me, “Now, Gary, you’re a REAL Paiute.”
Over the past twenty years I have been honored to be a regular singer at the Pine Nut Festival singing with a few of the old time singers, and new, younger singers who have come to be a part of the event.
Sample Music:
Pooeoo
Tuba buindzi
Numu
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