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Decolonization in Unexpected Places: Native Evangelicalism and the Rearticulation of Mission
- American Quarterly
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 62, Number 3, September 2010
- pp. 569-590
- 10.1353/aq.2010.0007
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In Native studies, many scholars propose "decolonization" as a guiding principle for Native scholarship and activism. This work generally presumes a non-Christian framework for decolonization, because the imposition of Christianity within Native communities is understood as part of the colonial process. But interestingly, some Native evangelicals are reading the same works cited above and are also applying decolonization as a guiding principle for biblical faith. This article will focus on one "unexpected place" for indigenous decolonization—Native evangelical leaders and organizations that circulate through the North American Institute of Indigenous Theological Studies (NAIITS).