What do Pentecostal Evangel readers need to know about the cultures the Native American Fellowship represents?
Maracle: Every tribe is unique. They differ in their language, their culture, their thinking, their worldview. There are differences between Indians east of the Mississippi and those west of the Mississippi. They differ extremely from the Northeast to the Southwest and Alaska, depending on the contact and their treaties that have been made with the United States. There are some tribes that have federal recognition and others that have state recognition. And then there are those which exist as rancheros they are distinct peoples but they don t have the recognition on the federal level. Evangel: One of your goals is to establish indigenous churches on Indian reservations. Please explain this concept for our readers. Maracle: Our goal is to train leaders who can raise up churches on every reservation and urban center that are self-supporting, self-governing and self-propagating. We want to see Indian leadership on every level Native American people reaching Native American people for Chri
