Native American Christian Music

Sunday I rested: sleep in late, listen to an Oakhill Christian Church sermon while I painted my nails, read my Bible, got a hair cut from a fellow-intern, etc.  Around 6:30pm, I finally left the house to go to church in Parmelee.  When our party of 4 got to Parmelee, we decided to walk around.  We were greeted by 4 young boys.  After throwing hay in our hair and on our clothes, the boys came to church with us.  After service, the boys started making paper planes out of the order-of-worship papers.  Obviously I joined!  Davis, my brother, typically excels in making paper planes; he even had a book of different ones to make.  Davis' planes typically beat mine...more like always.  By some fluke, I made an awesome paper plane, which made me seen super cool.  A young boy, Jud, and I hit it off because of the planes.  We made planes together; he made me two mini ones.  Then I made him an origami fortune teller.  After two more boys asked me to make them one, I just showed a boy how.

Home, Nicole and Mandy had just started a Lakota legends movie.  I grabbed some cereal and joined them.  (Tonight, we will finish the movie.)

This morning, I went to WBCWS.  One of the workers was playing Christian powwow music.  He then explained how it came to be.  In order to assimilate the Lakota people into American culture, the U.S. government attempted to force Christianity (particularly Catholic) onto the Lakota.  They would not allow the Natives to sing powwow music unless it was about Jesus and Christianity.  So the Natives sang powwow songs about Jesus.  In conversation, he continued to say that good came of it because the music is very calming.  I'm not for forcing a religion on someone; if someone has a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, they will worship him by their own choosing.  But it's good that we have these songs now.
Here is a link to listen to a Native American Christian song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDoyIjRVf30

For lunch, I went to Starlite with Nicole.  We waited 30 minutes for our fast-food because they went to go get hotdogs so they could make her corndog.  Uh....

Then off to Boys and Girls Club.  We only had four kids today.  A girl and I made a tower out of dominos, then saw how many books we could stack on it.  It was impressive!  We also did some work in the garden.  Then the same girl and I read a couple chapters from the Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe. (We skipped book one.  It's my least favorite.  I wanted her to like the series.)  Before clean-up time, her and I colored together.