Christianity might work on other continents and with other human beings; Yoeme did not dispute those possibilities. But from the beginning in the Ame… - Leslie Marmon Silko

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Christianity might work on other continents and with other human beings; Yoeme did not dispute those possibilities. But from the beginning in the Americas, the outsiders had sensed their Christianity was somehow inadequate in the face of the immensely powerful and splendid spirit beings who inhabited the vastness of the Americas. The Europeans had not been able to sleep soundly on the American continents, not even with a full military guard.