This is excerpted from the publication, “The School Sister of Notre Dame 1966 - Sioux Summer” published by SSNDs in 1966.
The best part of the day was by common consent,
the community worship at Mass. Here the liturgical renewal blended with Native culture: the congregation sang Father Rivers' Mass and the Gelineau psalms; the altar cloth was of soft leather decorated with colorful Indian beadwork. One mission church used bullhorn candleholders and a carved crucifix representing Christ as Indian, a Warrior God.
"Why not?" asked Peggy Shevlin. "I realize it only now, but Christ is every person on earth, and that makes Him an Indian."
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