New Religions and Old Ways

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Review| May 01 2022 New Religions and Old Ways: Kiowa Religious Change and Continuity in a Time of Upheaval The Gods of Indian Country: Religion and the Struggle for the American West. By Jennifer Graber. Oxford University Press, 2018. 312 pages. $35.95 cloth; ebook available.Religious Revitalization Among the Kiowas: The Ghost Dance, Peyote, and Christianity. By Benjamin R. Kracht. University of Nebraska Press, 2018. 342 pages. $75.00 cloth; ebook available.Crafting an Indigenous Nation: Kiowa Expressive Culture in the Progressive Era. By Jenny Tone-Pah-Hote. University of North Carolina Press, 2019. 162 pages. $90.00 cloth; $29.95 paper; ebook available. Sarah Dees Sarah Dees Sarah Dees, Iowa State University, sdees@iastate.edu Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Nova Religio (2022) 25 (4): 102–109. https://doi.org/10.1525/nr.2022.25.4.102 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Sarah Dees; New Religions and Old Ways: Kiowa Religious Change and Continuity in a Time of Upheaval. Nova Religio 1 May 2022; 25 (4): 102–109. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/nr.2022.25.4.102 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentNova Religio Search The Kiowa Indian Tribe of Oklahoma is a sovereign Indigenous nation with historic ties to what is now the Southern Plains region of the United States. Kiowas have a distinct history, language, culture, and religion. The nineteenth century brought significant changes to practitioners of Kiowa religious traditions. In October of 1867, members of the Kiowa, Comanche, Kiowa-Apache, Southern Cheyenne, and Arapaho nations signed the Medicine Lodge Treaty (a singular descriptor for what was actually a series of treaties) with the U.S. government. As more Euro-Americans had moved West following the Civil War, settlers and the U.S. military disrupted and attacked Native communities whose lands they sought to claim. Warriors from Native nations throughout the Plains had resisted the intrusions, at times with deadly violence. The U.S. government, concerned about the cost of continuing armed engagements, wished to establish a military truce with Native nations. But more than that, the federal... You do not currently have access to this content.