Seventeen top books about Native American culture

David Congdon is senior editor at the University Press of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas, and an adjunct instructor at the University of Dubuque Theological Seminary. He is the author of several books, including The Mission of Demythologizing: Rudolf Bultmann's Dialectical Theology, Rudolf Bultmann: A Companion to His Theology, The God Who Saves: A Dogmatic Sketch, and Who Is a True Christian? Contesting Religious Identity in American Culture.

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At Lit Hub Congdon tagged seventeen "outstanding Native American and Indigenous Studies books published by university presses." One title on the list:

Sharon V. Salinger, Perceived in Print: Indigenous American and French Ideas of the Other

Perceived in Print uses the published writings of adventurers and churchmen in the 16th and early 17th centuries to unlock what people from a diverse range of Indigenous cultures thought about the French and how the French perceived the inhabitants of these New Lands.

Read about another entry on the list.

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