John Slocum and the Indian Shaker Church

by John A. Brown, John Arthur Brown, Robert H. Ruby

Book Overview

This detailed, well-documented history describes the life of the Squaxin spiritual leader John Slocum and the growth in the Pacific Northwest of his Indian Shaker Church (not to be confused with eastern Shakerism). Students of Native American religion and Christianity will find this a moving story both of assimilation and of the curing that is the Shaker Church's reason for being.

The Indian Shaker movement began in 1882 when the charismatic...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806160438
• ISBN13: 9780806160436
• Release Date: May 2018
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Length: 324 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"