A guide by D. Schaerer, theology student, cherokee freedmen descendant

There are all kinds of theology, and, to the surprise of many, native american theology exists. In my eyes, it is a liberation theology, and there are quite a few profound, inspiring writers. Many of those books should be required reading for theology studies.

'A Native American Theology'
While observing traditional categories of Christian systematic theology, there is a reimaging consistent with Native American experience, values, and world view.

'For This Land: Writings on Religion in America'
The essays in this collection express Deloria's concern for the religious dimensions and implications of human existence. His writings are engaged within a theoretical system of physical, not ideological, space, and ultimately give voice to this intellectual passion by calling into question our controversial religious institutions, commitments, worldviews, freedoms and experiences.

'Native and Christian?: Indigenous Voices on Religious Identity in the United States and Canada'
Native and Christian is an anthology of essays by indigenous writers in the United States and Canada on the problem of native Christian identity.

'Spirit and Resistance: Political Theology and American Indian Liberation'
Tinker's work offers an overview of contemporary native American culture and its perilous state. Critical of recent liberal and New Age co-opting of Native spiritual practices, Tinker also offers a critical corrective to liberation theology. He shows how Native insights into the Sacred Other and sacred space helpfully reconfigure traditional ideas of God, Jesus' notion of the reign of God, and our relation to the earth.

'Missionary Conquest: The Gospel and Native American Cultural Genocide'
George Tinker, himself a member of the Osage/Cherokee people, is on faculty at Iliff School of Theology in Denver, bringing a Native American perspective to the predominantly European-American institution. Tinker states that 'perhaps the most fearful aspect of the church's complicity in the conquest of the native peoples in the latter sense is that it always happened with the best of intentions.'

'Native Voices: American Indian Identity and Resistance'
Ntive American scholars examine crucial issues of politics, law, and religion in the context of ongoing Native American resistance to the dominant culture. They particularly show how the writings of Vine Deloria, Jr., have shaped and challenged American Indian scholarship in these areas since the 1960s. They provide key insights into Deloria's thought, while introducing some of the critical issues still confronting Native nations today.

'American Indian Thought: Philosophical Essays'
This book features work from all American Indian Ph.D. holders in philosophy at the time of publication. The book touches on many areas of philosophy--from metaphysics to ethics to law. The thinkers put forth even and powerful arguments which challenge western philosophy, enter a respectful dialogue with western philosophers and assert wordviews and conclusions contra to western philosophy without apology and without being defined by (or merely a negation of) the western Other.

'Cherokees and Missionaries, 1789-1839'

'Native American Religious Identity: Unforgotten Gods'
This book is an anthology on various topics relating to the issues of Indian spirituality.

'The Sacred Pipe: An Archetypal Theology'
Steinmetz's study draws upon the work of religious scholars Mircea Ellade and Karl Rahner, as well as the depth psychology of Carl Jung to provide a probing examination of the inner meaning of symbols in both Christian and Native American contexts. Examples from ethnographic literature elucidate the use of the Sacred Pipe among native American groups.

'The Sacred Hoop : Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions'
This pioneering work, first published in 1986, documents the continuing vitality of American Indian traditions and the crucial role of women in those traditions.

'God Is Red: A Native View of Religion, 30th Anniversary Edition'

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