This week, the Iliff School of Theology will host a delegation of Lenape elders to discuss how to right a gruesome wrong.
In 1893, Iliff School of Theology was gifted a book of Christian history bound in the flayed skin of a murdered Lenape man. It was on display from 1893 to 1974. Now, through the scholarly efforts of Tink Tinker , who recently retired from Iliff after a 35-year career, the initial murder has been traced to the area known as West Virginia.
After student complaints, the book was removed from display in the early 1970s. The public culture in the U.S. had begun to do some reflecting on colonialism in open criticism of the Vietnam War, but American exceptionalism remains a powerful tool for denying the genocide of American Indians. As, the framing of the U.S. Constitution and the agreement to have a standing federal army rested on the perceived threats of Indians to eurochristian colonizers.
Secrets have a way of surfacing. Reverend Dr. Tom Wolfe, the current president of Iliff School of Theology, was aware of the secrecy surrounding the book when he began his appointment in 2013. Relying on Tinker’s research and teaching, Wolfe and the Iliff staff are addressing the institution’s past with transparency and relationship-building with Native communities.
Focused attention to the Iliff book reveals the embeddedness of colonialism in institutions of power and education that cannot be separated from religious colonization by convenient narratives of secularization. Between the 1970s and 2013, a lore had developed over almost forty years of secrecy. Some had heard it was a Bible bound in the skin of a Native person. Some Native people refused to visit the Iliff campus.
Tinker’s efforts serving the Four Winds American Indian Council in Denver for 25 years finally convinced the local Lutheran synod to return the land of one of its churches to the Native community, which is now designated as a
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