Dr. Jennifer Graber, Associate Professor, University of Texas at Austin

November 6, 2019

7-8:30pm

Karen Hille Philips Center for the Performing Arts

Free and Open to the Public

Encounters between Americans and Kiowa Indians in the 1870s resulted in religious transformation. This talk considers what happened to members of the Society of Friends, or Quakers, who worked on behalf of the U.S. government to “civilize” and evangelize Plains Indian peoples. It also describes new ritual activities engaged by Kiowas, including a revitalization movement associated with armed resistance, affiliation with Christian churches, and ritual peyote ingestion. The examples show how frontier contact resulted in religious change for everyone involved.