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Where the Two Roads Meet considers how Indian Catholics have tried to follow the route of two separate traditions, each with its own expectations, patterns, and identities. Vecsey examines the lives of American Indian Catholics who have been leaders in their communities and in the Church and considers how these extraordinary men and women have brought together their Indian and Catholic identities to accomplish a cultural and religious syncretism within themselves.
This volume, the third in the American Indian Catholics series, scrutinizes two recent developments in Native American Catholic ministry—the Medicine Men and Clergy Meetings that took place in the 1970s at the Lakota Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota, and the National Tekakwitha Conference, created to foster American Indian Catholic inculturation. Vecsey demonstrates how these developments have encouraged Church personnel to engage in interfaith dialogue with Indian religious exponents.
“After 500 plus years of ‘evangelization’ among the first peoples of the Americas, Vecsey’s third volume shows that Native American people have not lost their identity in the Catholic Church in the United States. Rather, they retain their identity despite enormous social, economic and religious forces to assimilate them into American Catholic society, as well as stormy disagreements among themselves.” —Marie Therese Archambault, O.S.F.
Christopher Vecsey is Harry Emerson Fosdick Professor of the Humanities and Native American Studies and Religion at Colgate University and author of On the Padres' Trail (University of Notre Dame Press, 1996) and The Paths of Kateri's Kin (University of Notre Dame Press, 1998).