John Dart, in Theology Today and the Tepee (July 198 l), Princeton Theological Semi-
nary, P.O. Box 29, Princeton, N.J. 08540.
Assailed missionaries, long stifled by "humanitarian" laws, and eroded by modern ideas, many of the North American Indians' reli- gious traditions have faded. A recent law, the American Indian Reli- gious Freedom Act of 1978, attempts to protect what survives.
Until the mid-20th century, Washington assumed that its duty was to "civilize and Christianize"...