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George Tinker

January 01, 1970

George E. "Tink" Tinker is an American Indian scholar of the Osage Nation who taught for more than three decades at the Iliff School of Theology, a United Methodist Church theological school, where he focused his scholarship on the decolonization of American Indian Peoples. The Tinker family name is deeply embedded among the Osage.

Career edit

Tinker is the Clifford Baldridge Emeritus Professor of American Indian Cultures and Religious Traditions at the Iliff School of Theology in Denver, Colorado, where he taught from 1985 until 2017.[1] Tinker is a citizen of the wazhazhe udsethe / Osage Nation. For 25 years he served pro bono as the director and spiritual leader of Four Winds American Indian Council. He is also on the leadership council of the American Indian Movement of Colorado and continues to serve on the elders council of the Four Winds American Indian Council. He has also presented in forums across the continent and around the world.

In his best known work, American Indian Liberation, Tinker argues that, "The intellectual and religious realms have been crucial to colonial political and economic domination of indigenous peoples."[2] He believes that Native American Christians need to separate themselves from the colonial thinking of European settlers but draw from Native American spirituality and its emphases on space, nature, and community. He developed this further in the co-authored book Native American Theology.[3]

Tinker's recent work has also examined the historical and institutional controversy and surrounding an atrocity where a book of Christian history that was bound in the skin of an Indigenous Man and gifted to Iliff School of Theology. Although the human skin was removed and given to American Indian Movement representatives in the 1970s, a non-disclosure agreement silenced the institutional role played by the school where the book was displayed for eighty years. With the support of Thomas Wolfe, the current president of the Iliff School, Tinker has worked to build awareness about the book and the lingering ways that institutions benefit from their participation in colonialism.[4]

Works edit

  • Missionary Conquest: The Gospel and Native American Cultural Genocide (1993)
  • Spirit and Resistance: Political Theology and American Indian Liberation (2004)
  • American Indian Liberation: A Theology of Sovereignty (2008)
  • co-editor of Native Voices: American Indian Identity and Resistance (2003)

ARTICLES:

1.“Weaponized christianity: missiology, jesus, the gospel, and Indigenous Genocide,” Handbook on Intercultural Theology and Missiology, edited by John Flett and Dorottya Nagy (T & T Clark, in press).

2.“How the Eurochristian Invasion of Turtle Island Created the Environmental Crises: Focus on an Early ‘Immigration’,” in Displacement Climes: Shifting Climates, Shifting People, edited by Miguel de la Torre (in press).

3.“The Corons and American Indian Genocide: Weaponizing Infectious Disease as the Continuation of a eurochristian Religious Project,” 2020 Hindsight: The Racial Realization and Religious Significance of the COVID-19 Pandemic, edited by Stacey M. Floyd-Thomas. (in press)

4.“Much Ado about Nothing,” in Faith and Resistance after Trump, edited by Miguel de la Torre (Orbis, 2021), pp. 184–192.

5.“Relationship—Not Ownership: Indigenous Lands and Colonial Occupation,” Tribal Studies (2021).

6.“Occupation in north America: States, Rule of Law, Language, and Indians,” in Resisting Occupation: A Global Struggle for Liberation, ed. by Mitri Raheb and Miguel A. de la Torre (Lexington Books, Fortress Academic, 2022), 175-193.

7.“jesus, the gospel, and Genocide,” in The Colonial Compromise: The Threat of the gospel to the Indigenous Worldview, edited by Miguel de la Torre (Lexington Books/Fortress Academic, December 2020). A volume of essays in honor of Tinker’s career.

8.“Discovery, St. Junípero, Lewis and Clark,” The New Polis (3 November 2020): https://thenewpolis.com/2020/11/03/discovery-st-junipero-lewis-and-clark-tink-tinker-wazhazhe-osage-nation/. This is a slightly revised version of an essay I published in the mennonite journal Intotemak in 2016. Note below. Online publication also makes it more widely available.

9.“Religious Studies: The Final Colonization of American Indians,” Religious Theory, e-supplement to Journal of Cultural and Religious Theory (June 1, 2020): http://jcrt.org/religioustheory/2020/06/01/religious-studies-the-final-colonization-of-american-indians-part-1-tink-tinker-wazhazhe-udsethe/. And: Part 2 (June 9, 2020): http://jcrt.org/religioustheory/2020/06/09/religious-studies-the-final-colonization-of-american-indians-part-1-tink-tinker-wazhazhe-udsethe-2/.

10.“What Are We Going to Do with White People? The New Polis (December 17, 2019): https://thenewpolis.com/2019/12/17/what-are-we-going-to-do-with-white-people-tink-tinker-wazhazhe-osage-nation/.

11.“Osage Kettle Carriers: Marmitons, Scullery Boys, Deviants and Gender Choices,” The New Polis (July 24, 2019): http://thenewpolis.com/2019/07/24/osage-kettle-carriers-marmitons-scullery-boys-deviants-and-gender-choices-tink-tinker-wazhazhe-osage-nation/.

12.“’Damn it, he’s an Injun!’ Christian Murder, Colonial Wealth, and Tanned Human Skin,” The New Polis, January 21, 2019: http://thenewpolis.com/2019/01/21/damn-it-hes-an-injun-christian-murder-colonial-wealth-and-tanned-human-skin-tink-tinker-wazhazhe-udsethe/.

13.“The Earth, Property, Pipelines and Resistance: Waylaying Treaties,” Faith and Resistance in the Age of Trump, edited by Miguel de la Torre. Orbis, 2017. 174-182.

14.“The Doctrine of christian Discovery: Lutherans and the Language of Empire,” Journal of Lutheran Ethics, 17:2 (March, 2017): http://www.elca.org/JLE/Articles/1203?_ga=2.135755441.1678807210.1512268747-1739868796.1512268747.

15.“The Irrelevance of Euro-christian Dichotomies for Indigenous Peoples: Beyond Non-violence to a Vision of Cosmic Balance.” Peacemaking and the Challenge of Violence in World Religions. Irfan A. Omar and Joshua Burns, editors. Wiley-Blackwell, 2015. 206-229.

16.“Redskin, Tanned Hide: A Book of Christian History Bound in the Flayed Skin of an American Indian: The Colonial Romance, christian Denial and the Cleansing of a christian School of Theology,” Journal of Race and Ethnicity in Religion, Volume 5, Issue 9, 2014: http://www.raceandreligion.com/JRER/Volume_5_(2014)_files/Tinker%205%209.pdf.

17.“American Indians and Ecotheology: Alterity and Worldview.” In Eco-Lutheranism: Lutheran Perspectives on Ecology (ELCA Association of Teaching Theologians, Proceedings, 2012). Edited by Karla Bohmbach and Shauna Hannon. Lutheran University Press, 2013. pp. 69–84.

18.“American Indian Liberation: Paddling a Canoe Upstream.” In The Reemergence of Liberation Theologies: Models for the Twenty-first Century, edited by Thia Cooper. Palgrave, Macmillan, 2013. pp. 57–67.

19.“‘To the Victor Belong the Spoils’: An Afterword on Colonialist History.” In Buried in Shades of Night: Contested Voices, Indian Captivity, and the Legacy of King Philip’s War, by Billy J. Stratton. Univ. of Arizona Press, 2013. Pp.

20.“Why I Don’t Believe in a Creator.” In Buffalo Shout, Salmon Cry: Conversations on Creation, Land Justice, and Life Together, edited by Steve Heinrichs. Herald Press, 2013. pp. 167–179. Now online at: https://s3.amazonaws.com/iliff-edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/18155740/Tinker-Why-I-Do-Not-Believe-in-a-Creator-Conversations-on-Creation-Land-Justice-and-Life-Together.pdf.

21."John Locke: On Property." In Beyond the Pale: Reading Christian Ethics from the Margins, edited by Stacey Floyd-Thomas and Miguel de la Torre. WJK, 2011. pp. 49–60.

22."Decolonizing the Language of Lutheran Theology: Confessions, Mission, Indians and the Globalization of Hybridity." Dialog: A Journal of Theology, 50:2 (Summer, 2011): 195-207. Academic/library access: Dialog: Vol 50, No 2 (wiley.com).

23."American Indians, Conquest, the Christian Story, and Invasive Nation-building." In Wading Through Many Voices: Toward A Theology of Public Conversation. Edited by Harold Recinos. Rowman and Littlefield, 2011. pp. 255–277.

24.“Towards an American Indian Indigenous Theology,” Ecumenical Review, 62.4 (December 2010): 340-351.

25."An American Indian Cultural Universe: We Are All Related," in Kathleen Dean Moore and Michael P. Nelson, eds., Moral Ground. Trinity University Press, 2010.

26."Jamestown as Romance and Tragedy: Abjection, Violence, Missiology, and American Indians.” Journal of Race and Ethnicity in Religion (March 2010): a peer-reviewed on-line journal at: http://www.raceandreligion.com/JRER/Articles_files/Jamestown%20as%20Romance%20and%20Tragedy.pdf.

27.“American Indian Theology: The American Indian Self and Theological Resistance to the Imperial Other.” In Liberation Theologies in the United States: An Introduction, edited by Anthony Pinn and Stacey M. Floyd-Thomas. NYU Press, 2010. pp. 168–180.

28.“American Indians and Liberation: Harmony and Balance,” in The Hope of Liberation in World Religions. Edited by Miguel de la Torre. Baylor University Press, 2008. pp. 257–273.

29.“Thief, Slave-Trader, Murderer: Christopher Columbus and Caribbean Population Decline,” co-authored with Mark Freeland. Wíčazo Ša Review (Spring 2008). pp. 25–50.

References edit

  1. ^ "Tink Tinker". Iliff School of Theology. 2017-08-10. Retrieved 27 October 2017.
  2. ^ Tinker, George E., American Indian Liberation: A Theology of Sovereignty, p.18, Orbis Books, Maryknoll, New York ISBN 978-1-57075-805-8
  3. ^ Kidwell, Clara Sue; Noley, Homer; Tinker, George E. (2001). A Native American Theology. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books. ISBN 978-1-57075-361-9.
  4. ^ Tinker, George E. (October 2014). "Redskin, Tanned Hide: A Book of Christian History Bound in the Flayed Skin of an American Indian: The Colonial Romance, Christian Denial and the Cleansing of a Christian School of Theology" (PDF). Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Religion. 5 (9): 1–43.

Further reading edit

  • Tinker, George E. "Spirituality Justice Reprint: Dreaming a New Dream Cowboys, Indians, Global Violence and the Gospel." Plenary address at CTA National Conference, Milwaukee, Wis., Nov. 5, 2000.
  • Tinker, George. "Spirituality, Native American Personhood, Sovereignty, and Solidarity." Native and Christian: Indigenous Voices on Religious Identity in the United States and Canada. New York and London: Routledge, 1996.
  • A Visionary Theology: 2004 GTU Alum of the Year: George E. 'Tink' Tinker

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George E Tink Tinker is an American Indian scholar of the Osage Nation who taught for more than three decades at the Iliff School of Theology a United Methodist Church theological school where he focused his scholarship on the decolonization of American Indian Peoples The Tinker family name is deeply embedded among the Osage Contents 1 Career 2 Works 3 References 4 Further readingCareer editTinker is the Clifford Baldridge Emeritus Professor of American Indian Cultures and Religious Traditions at the Iliff School of Theology in Denver Colorado where he taught from 1985 until 2017 1 Tinker is a citizen of the wazhazhe udsethe Osage Nation For 25 years he served pro bono as the director and spiritual leader of Four Winds American Indian Council He is also on the leadership council of the American Indian Movement of Colorado and continues to serve on the elders council of the Four Winds American Indian Council He has also presented in forums across the continent and around the world In his best known work American Indian Liberation Tinker argues that The intellectual and religious realms have been crucial to colonial political and economic domination of indigenous peoples 2 He believes that Native American Christians need to separate themselves from the colonial thinking of European settlers but draw from Native American spirituality and its emphases on space nature and community He developed this further in the co authored book Native American Theology 3 Tinker s recent work has also examined the historical and institutional controversy and surrounding an atrocity where a book of Christian history that was bound in the skin of an Indigenous Man and gifted to Iliff School of Theology Although the human skin was removed and given to American Indian Movement representatives in the 1970s a non disclosure agreement silenced the institutional role played by the school where the book was displayed for eighty years With the support of Thomas Wolfe the current president of the Iliff School Tinker has worked to build awareness about the book and the lingering ways that institutions benefit from their participation in colonialism 4 Works editMissionary Conquest The Gospel and Native American Cultural Genocide 1993 Spirit and Resistance Political Theology and American Indian Liberation 2004 American Indian Liberation A Theology of Sovereignty 2008 co editor of Native Voices American Indian Identity and Resistance 2003 ARTICLES 1 Weaponized christianity missiology jesus the gospel and Indigenous Genocide Handbook on Intercultural Theology and Missiology edited by John Flett and Dorottya Nagy T amp T Clark in press 2 How the Eurochristian Invasion of Turtle Island Created the Environmental Crises Focus on an Early Immigration in Displacement Climes Shifting Climates Shifting People edited by Miguel de la Torre in press 3 The Corons and American Indian Genocide Weaponizing Infectious Disease as the Continuation of a eurochristian Religious Project 2020 Hindsight The Racial Realization and Religious Significance of the COVID 19 Pandemic edited by Stacey M Floyd Thomas in press 4 Much Ado about Nothing in Faith and Resistance after Trump edited by Miguel de la Torre Orbis 2021 pp 184 192 5 Relationship Not Ownership Indigenous Lands and Colonial Occupation Tribal Studies 2021 6 Occupation in north America States Rule of Law Language and Indians in Resisting Occupation A Global Struggle for Liberation ed by Mitri Raheb and Miguel A de la Torre Lexington Books Fortress Academic 2022 175 193 7 jesus the gospel and Genocide in The Colonial Compromise The Threat of the gospel to the Indigenous Worldview edited by Miguel de la Torre Lexington Books Fortress Academic December 2020 A volume of essays in honor of Tinker s career 8 Discovery St Junipero Lewis and Clark The New Polis 3 November 2020 https thenewpolis com 2020 11 03 discovery st junipero lewis and clark tink tinker wazhazhe osage nation This is a slightly revised version of an essay I published in the mennonite journal Intotemak in 2016 Note below Online publication also makes it more widely available 9 Religious Studies The Final Colonization of American Indians Religious Theory e supplement to Journal of Cultural and Religious Theory June 1 2020 http jcrt org religioustheory 2020 06 01 religious studies the final colonization of american indians part 1 tink tinker wazhazhe udsethe And Part 2 June 9 2020 http jcrt org religioustheory 2020 06 09 religious studies the final colonization of american indians part 1 tink tinker wazhazhe udsethe 2 10 What Are We Going to Do with White People The New Polis December 17 2019 https thenewpolis com 2019 12 17 what are we going to do with white people tink tinker wazhazhe osage nation 11 Osage Kettle Carriers Marmitons Scullery Boys Deviants and Gender Choices The New Polis July 24 2019 http thenewpolis com 2019 07 24 osage kettle carriers marmitons scullery boys deviants and gender choices tink tinker wazhazhe osage nation 12 Damn it he s an Injun Christian Murder Colonial Wealth and Tanned Human Skin The New Polis January 21 2019 http thenewpolis com 2019 01 21 damn it hes an injun christian murder colonial wealth and tanned human skin tink tinker wazhazhe udsethe 13 The Earth Property Pipelines and Resistance Waylaying Treaties Faith and Resistance in the Age of Trump edited by Miguel de la Torre Orbis 2017 174 182 14 The Doctrine of christian Discovery Lutherans and the Language of Empire Journal of Lutheran Ethics 17 2 March 2017 http www elca org JLE Articles 1203 ga 2 135755441 1678807210 1512268747 1739868796 1512268747 15 The Irrelevance of Euro christian Dichotomies for Indigenous Peoples Beyond Non violence to a Vision of Cosmic Balance Peacemaking and the Challenge of Violence in World Religions Irfan A Omar and Joshua Burns editors Wiley Blackwell 2015 206 229 16 Redskin Tanned Hide A Book of Christian History Bound in the Flayed Skin of an American Indian The Colonial Romance christian Denial and the Cleansing of a christian School of Theology Journal of Race and Ethnicity in Religion Volume 5 Issue 9 2014 http www raceandreligion com JRER Volume 5 2014 files Tinker 205 209 pdf 17 American Indians and Ecotheology Alterity and Worldview In Eco Lutheranism Lutheran Perspectives on Ecology ELCA Association of Teaching Theologians Proceedings 2012 Edited by Karla Bohmbach and Shauna Hannon Lutheran University Press 2013 pp 69 84 18 American Indian Liberation Paddling a Canoe Upstream In The Reemergence of Liberation Theologies Models for the Twenty first Century edited by Thia Cooper Palgrave Macmillan 2013 pp 57 67 19 To the Victor Belong the Spoils An Afterword on Colonialist History In Buried in Shades of Night Contested Voices Indian Captivity and the Legacy of King Philip s War by Billy J Stratton Univ of Arizona Press 2013 Pp 20 Why I Don t Believe in a Creator In Buffalo Shout Salmon Cry Conversations on Creation Land Justice and Life Together edited by Steve Heinrichs Herald Press 2013 pp 167 179 Now online at https s3 amazonaws com iliff edu wp content uploads 2018 06 18155740 Tinker Why I Do Not Believe in a Creator Conversations on Creation Land Justice and Life Together pdf 21 John Locke On Property In Beyond the Pale Reading Christian Ethics from the Margins edited by Stacey Floyd Thomas and Miguel de la Torre WJK 2011 pp 49 60 22 Decolonizing the Language of Lutheran Theology Confessions Mission Indians and the Globalization of Hybridity Dialog A Journal of Theology 50 2 Summer 2011 195 207 Academic library access Dialog Vol 50 No 2 wiley com 23 American Indians Conquest the Christian Story and Invasive Nation building In Wading Through Many Voices Toward A Theology of Public Conversation Edited by Harold Recinos Rowman and Littlefield 2011 pp 255 277 24 Towards an American Indian Indigenous Theology Ecumenical Review 62 4 December 2010 340 351 25 An American Indian Cultural Universe We Are All Related in Kathleen Dean Moore and Michael P Nelson eds Moral Ground Trinity University Press 2010 26 Jamestown as Romance and Tragedy Abjection Violence Missiology and American Indians Journal of Race and Ethnicity in Religion March 2010 a peer reviewed on line journal at http www raceandreligion com JRER Articles files Jamestown 20as 20Romance 20and 20Tragedy pdf 27 American Indian Theology The American Indian Self and Theological Resistance to the Imperial Other In Liberation Theologies in the United States An Introduction edited by Anthony Pinn and Stacey M Floyd Thomas NYU Press 2010 pp 168 180 28 American Indians and Liberation Harmony and Balance in The Hope of Liberation in World Religions Edited by Miguel de la Torre Baylor University Press 2008 pp 257 273 29 Thief Slave Trader Murderer Christopher Columbus and Caribbean Population Decline co authored with Mark Freeland Wicazo Sa Review Spring 2008 pp 25 50 References edit Tink Tinker Iliff School of Theology 2017 08 10 Retrieved 27 October 2017 Tinker George E American Indian Liberation A Theology of Sovereignty p 18 Orbis Books Maryknoll New York ISBN 978 1 57075 805 8 Kidwell Clara Sue Noley Homer Tinker George E 2001 A Native American Theology Maryknoll NY Orbis Books ISBN 978 1 57075 361 9 Tinker George E October 2014 Redskin Tanned Hide A Book of Christian History Bound in the Flayed Skin of an American Indian The Colonial Romance Christian Denial and the Cleansing of a Christian School of Theology PDF Journal of Race Ethnicity and Religion 5 9 1 43 Further reading editTinker George E Spirituality Justice Reprint Dreaming a New Dream Cowboys Indians Global Violence and the Gospel Plenary address at CTA National Conference Milwaukee Wis Nov 5 2000 1 Tinker George Spirituality Native American Personhood Sovereignty and Solidarity Native and Christian Indigenous Voices on Religious Identity in the United States and Canada New York and London Routledge 1996 A Visionary Theology 2004 GTU Alum of the Year George E Tink Tinker 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