Dr. Jennifer Graber joins the pod to discuss her book The Gods of Indian Country: Religion and the Struggle for the American West. We discuss a group of 19th century, self-described "Friends of the Indian," the lived experiences and historical resistance of the Kiowa Nation, the interrelatedness of US imperialism, settler colonialism, and Christianity, and the various ways that 19th century Christians thought of their genocidal work as benevolent and Providential.
You can find her two books here: The Gods of Indian Country: Religion and the Struggle for the American West and The Furnace of Affliction: Prisons and Religion in Antebellum America
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Music by Amaryah Armstrong