[…] to mean valleys and homes and streets and people and, most of all, churches. By now, the black celluloid sea known only to photographers had engulfed Doug and he was trying to expose and […]
In the west door for kings alone swung wide,
the leather-padded wicket, left behind me
stifling a gasp, expired.
No more fresh air:
I had entered the dim, mouldy, hollow hush
of a dead church—the silence of the ‘grave
and reverend’ sirs ghosting it in their gowns—
[…] that he had been a missionary in the southern United States when the Church declined to teach Black people. That was before the 1978 revelation extending the priesthood to all eligible males regardless of […]
[…] House, clan of the Navajo Nation. We call ourselves Diné. My father is born for the Tsi’naajinii, Black Streak Wood People, clan. He is in his seventies and has been practicing medicine since the […]
[…] Despite a theology that foreshadowed cooperation, Mormon–Indian relations remained heated, particularly during the Walker War (1853–54) and Black Hawk War (1865–68). Historian W. Paul Reeve has noted that “the idealistic spiritual vision sometimes suffered” […]