Abstract
In Spirit and Resistance: Political Theology and American Indian Liberation, Osage theologian George E. Tinker (2004:4) argues with bitter realism as well as a sense of hope for a theology of American Indian liberation that “remember[s] the past in order to dream the future.” The process of creating such a theology must originate from within Indian communities, Tinker claims, guided by Indian people. “Our past and our future,” he writes, “have been consistently signified for us—by missionaries, by anthropologists and other university academics, by government bureaucrats.” Remembering and engaging the history and legacy of colonialism is a necessary part