Deus Misereatur

  Our congregation has been engaged with Cedar Creek Church in Southwest Oklahoma for many years. We have partnered with several Native American groups while serving there, mostly with Kiowa believers. Recently, one of the local pastors told me about "The Jesus Road: Kiowas, Christianity, and Indian Hymns" and I immediately ordered a copy. It was a pleasure to read about many of the congregations in the region that I have been involved with over the past ten years, and to discover some extra history. The first part of the book is a historical accounting of how the Christian faith came among the Kiowas in the 19th Century. The mistaken notions many of our missionaries, the successes, blunders, etc. The second part of the book is on the role of Kiowa hymns for the faith of Kiowa Christians. There are numerous samples of Kiowa hymns. There was supposed to be an accompanying CD with the book, but there wasn't one with the new copy I received. The goal of the book is to "...

The Ten Grandmothers: Epic of the Kiowas by Alice Marriott My rating: 5 of 5 stars Every year, for the past 6 or 7 years, I have traveled from north Oklahoma City to southwestern Oklahoma, involved in a week-long service among Native Americans in the region. Many of the folks I end up rubbing shoulders with are Comanches, Apaches, Kiowa-Apaches, Delawares, Kiowas, and others. So I was delighted to pick up a copy of this volume at the Wichita Wildlife Refuge Visitor Center bookstore on our last visit. Alice Marriott, the first woman to earn an anthropology degree from the University of Oklahoma, accomplished author on Native American and Southwestern history, and posthumous inductee into the Oklahoma Historians Hall of Fame in 2004, published this work in 1945. It is a one-hundred-year segment - 1847 through 1944 - of living memory from one "camp" (or band) of the Kiowas, lifted out and laid before interested readers. "The Ten Grandmothers: Epic of the Kiowas" ...