"We believe all religions are really the same—all part of the Great Spirit. The trouble is not with Christianity, with religion, but with what you have made out of it. You have turned it upside down. You have made the religion of the protest leader and hippie Jesus into the religion of missionaries, army padres, Bureau of Indian Affairs officials. These are two altogether different religions, my friend. . . . Many of us Sioux go to a church on Sunday, to a peyote meeting on Saturday, and to a man any day when we feel sick."
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pages 216-217. As quoted in Holloway, B. (2020). Interpreting the Legacy: John Neihardt and Black Elk Speaks. Boulder: University Press of Colorado. https://muse.jhu.edu/book/77127
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John Fire Lame Deer
John Fire Lame Deer (in Lakota Tȟáȟča Hušté; March 17, 1903 – December 14, 1976) was a Lakota holy man.
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