We headed south on Rte 83 through “The Badlands” to the Rosebud Reservation in southern South Dakota. There I talked with pastor Ed Bausell of the Tiospaye Bible Baptist Church. He has worked among the Lakota Sioux here for the past 25 years. Pastor Bausell said he believes that just as God worked with the Isrealites over generations in preparation for the coming of Christ, He too had worked with the Native Americans in the same way. Pastor Bausell said many of the Native American rituals and lifestyle all revolved around spirituality and, uncannily, a type of Christian spirituality. He points, as an example, to the age old “Sundances.” In this ceremony, Lakota men are pierced and hung on a tree. Before this, the man goes through a long “hanbleca,” or vision quest. According to tradition, he is preparing himself to be peirced and put on the tree as a sacrifice “that his people might live.” Pastore Bausell said he believes, strongly, that the revelation of Jesus as Savior was merely the next phase of the Native American history and God was, indeed (again, like He had been with the Isrealites) carefully shaping their spirituality. [Paradoxically, what the Native Americans experienced from many of the early settlers, who proclaimed to already be “Christians,” was anything but Christian.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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