Twenty Years On

The Once and Future Theology of Native America

Abstract

The author returns to predictions he made twenty years ago published in a chapter titled “From Medicine Man to Marx.†It was a call for traditional Native American economic theory to be articulated as clearly as Native American spirituality. The author examines the accuracy of his projections based on contemporary developments, summarizes the current position of Native American theology, and then charts the salient economic and spiritual trends twenty years into the future.