I can't type very well on this tiny frame but GOD YOU READ MY EMAILS NOT ABOUT MONEY I DONT NEED TOO MUCH CAN WE BE PEOPLE YOU LOVE AND NEED SO MUCH I USE TO KISS PEOPLES FEET OR HAND I CRAVED AND STARVED FOR YOUR LOVE YOU GIVE AND GIVE EVERYDAY CONSTANT WATCH BRING IN YOUR HARVEST EVERYONE YOU CHOSE WHO IS HUMBLE AT HEART

You come to understand that the message he gave for them to give us ,is'n the message we got...can't blame the message .but those who gave their version of it.have to look for it's original meaning....just a thought...Whispering Raven

Meaniee94; Answer---The same way Nazism & Hitler should be promoted as a valid religion & savior for today's surviving Jewish people! Of course, some laugh at that rediculousness---after all, Jewish children were not incarcerated in Nazi boarding schools named after glorified Nazi leaders like Hitler & Gourbel (sp?), as were generations of Natives in schools named for Christian generals who had killed Natives. True recognition for Christian dogma supporting Native genocide & suppression of Native spiritual traditions renders a ludicrous attempt irrelevant synchronicity---for honest comparison of Christianity with the basic/universal Native spirituality render major conflicts. If the conflicts were not major, then why were children abducted, confined, and beaten to accept "the blessings of Jesus"???? Of course, this was in conjunction with Christian missionaries bribing corralled & hungry reservation folks with the quid-pro-quo of Church soup & blankets for baptism! So much for "separation of church & state"!!! Again, why was all this deployed IF Christianity was so simpatico with Native spirituality?---- Because it wasn't & isn't----it was & is a threat to the many true Native spiritual ways, and hence, we witness these latter-day popular revised efforts to make Christianity palatable after generations as force-fed ingestion contributing to the highest percentages per capita of alcoholism/substance abuse, suicide, domestic violence, unemployment & poverty----i.e. it appears Christian acculturation isn't working well for Natives. These pro-Christian programs generally are akin to preaching to the sympathetic avoidance of Christianity's racism. "Mitakuyee Oasin" (All our relations---- unfortunately sometimes).

i know this is years later, but i have a couple thoughts about your question. The way that Christianity was often brought as a tool to colonize us Indins does not reflect the true life and teachings of Jesus Christ and the Bible. The reality is Jesus was not a white man from a European mindset, but rather a tribal man from a people whose culture was very similar to that of Native North and South America. I fully believe that He is the Creator and He loved all human beings and all of His creation so much that He became a part of it and walked in a good and perfect way to be an example. He then gave up His life in the physical sense and became victorious over death by rising from the dead, in order to restore all creation into a harmonious relationship with Himself and with each other. My point is to follow Christianity in the colonial interpretation makes absolutely no sense for a Native. However, Jesus Christ is not the colonial slave master that came to North America and caused so many atrocious things to this land. The real Jesus says come to me how you are and I will perfect you while at the same time making you to be how I intended. If He wanted us to become white then He would have created us white. If He wanted us to give up our culture in its entrirety, then He would not have created us as members of that culture in the first place. Anyways, if you ever do read this I hope this helps, and may Creator bless you and guide you on your own spiritual journey to walk in a good way.