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Native is about identity, soul-searching, and the never-ending journey of finding ourselves and finding God. As both a citizen of the Potawatomi Nation and a Christian, Kaitlin Curtice offers a unique perspective on these topics. In this book, she shows how reconnecting with her Potawatomi identity both informs and challenges her faith.

Curtice draws on her personal journey, poetry, imagery, and stories of the Potawatomi people to address themes at the forefront of today's discussions of faith and culture in a positive and constructive way. She encourages us to embrace our own origins and to share and listen to each other's stories so we can build a more inclusive and diverse future. Each of our stories matters for the church to be truly whole. As Curtice shares what it means to experience her faith through the lens of her Indigenous heritage, she reveals that a vibrant spirituality has its origins in identity, belonging, and a sense of place.

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Kaitlin B. Curtice is a citizen of the Potawatomi Nation as well as a Christian, public speaker, and poet. She travels around the country speaking on faith and justice within the church as it relates to Indigenous peoples and has been a featured speaker at Why Christian, Evolving Faith, Wild Goose Festival, and more.

Curtice is a monthly columnist for Sojourners, has contributed to On Being and Religion News Service, and has been featured on CBS and in USA Today and the New Yorker.

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“Curtice is a vital artist and teacher, and Native is her most important offering yet. It will remain on my shelf forever.”

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“Kaitlin Curtice is one of the braver writers I know.”

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“Curtice is a brave truth-teller and a prophetic voice we need to be listening to, and Native is a book that will guide us toward a better future.”

Sarah Bessey, author of Miracles and Other Reasonable Things

“Her story is compelling and healing, and her path is an invitation to all of us, even as she challenges our assumptions and imaginations.”

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Native is about identity, soul-searching, and the never-ending journey of finding ourselves and finding God. As both a citizen of the Potawatomi Nation and a Christian, Kaitlin Curtice shares what it means to experience her faith through the lens of her Indigenous heritage and encourages us to embrace our own origins.

"Kaitlin Curtice is one of the braver writers I know. She won't smooth any edges for you, and she won't let you change the subject, but she'll support you digging as deeply for your roots as she has for hers."
--Barbara Brown Taylor, bestselling author of Holy Envy and Learning to Walk in the Dark

"It isn't very often that a book about identity--let alone dismantling white supremacy and patriarchy--reads like a poem, but that's Kaitlin. She is thoughtful decolonization set to music and wrapped in love."
--Sarah Bessey, author of Miracles and Other Reasonable Things and Jesus Feminist

"There is no doubt Christianity has been the handmaiden to the destruction of Indigenous nations. Native is an indigenization of faith and, more important, a moral call not only for the Christian church but for everyone to reckon with the genocidal legacies of US settler colonialism and African slavery."
--Nick Estes, cofounder of The Red Nation

"This book is required reading for all those committed to learning the truth about the land we live on and the institutions we live inside of. It called me out and called me home."
--Glennon Doyle, author of Untamed and founder of Together Rising

"Curtice is a brave truth-teller and a prophetic voice we need to be listening to, and Native is a book that will guide us toward a better future."
--Richard Rohr, OFM, Center for Action and Contemplation

"I'm so grateful for Curtice's voice."
--Nadia Bolz-Weber, bestselling author, speaker, and public theologian

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Kaitlin B. Curtice is an award-winning author, poet-storyteller, and public speaker. As an enrolled citizen of the Potawatomi nation, she writes on the intersections of spirituality and identity and how that shifts throughout our lives. She also speaks on these topics to diverse audiences who are interested in truth-telling and healing. As an inter-spiritual advocate, Kaitlin participates in conversations on topics such as colonialism in faith communities, and she has spoken at many conferences on the importance of interfaith relationships. She writes online for Sojourners, Religion News Service, On Being, Oprah Daily, and more. Her work has been featured on CBS and in USA Today. She also writes at The Liminality Journal. Kaitlin lives in Philadelphia with her family.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Brazos Press; Illustrated edition (May 5, 2020)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 208 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1587434318
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1587434310
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.31 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 0.47 x 8.5 inches

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Kaitlin Curtice is an award-winning author, poet-storyteller, and public speaker. As an enrolled citizen of the Potawatomi nation, Kaitlin writes on the intersections of spirituality and identity and how that shifts throughout our lives. She also speaks on these topics to diverse audiences who are interested in truth-telling and healing.

As an interspiritual advocate, Kaitlin participates in conversations on topics such as colonialism in faith communities, and she has spoken at many conferences on the importance of interfaith relationships.

Besides her books, Kaitlin has written online for Sojourners, Religion News Service, Apartment Therapy, On Being, SELF Magazine, Oprah Daily and more. Her work has been featured on CBS and in USA Today. She also writes at The Liminality Journal.

Kaitlin lives in Philadelphia with her family.

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Scott Gilvear
A powerful reclaiming.
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Native is a necessary and deeply moving read. Kaitlin invites us into her story with honesty, tenderness, and courage—naming the tensions between colonized religion and Indigenous identity with such clarity. This book helped me reflect on my own journey of unlearning, belonging, and what it means to hold complexity with grace.

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Fixing What's Broken
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Kaitlin Curtice's book is a beautiful telling of her spiritual awakening--an awakening of who she is as a Native American woman, who she is in the Creator, and how she reckons that with the ugly residue of colonialism in the contemporary American Church and society. Her writing is poetic and her thoughts candid. She brings awareness of the painful Native American experience, their close walk with Creator, and their understanding and care of all that He has created. Her book shows us a better way, inspiring hope to those who have been oppressed, and sounding a call for humility, gentleness and genuine Christlikeness for those like me who live on stolen land.

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An honest, poetic memoir about Indigenous identity and Christian faith
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"The sacred thing about being human is that no matter how hard we try to get rid of them, our stories are our stories."
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I was excited for the chance to be part of the launch team for Kaitlin Curtice's new book Native, a reflective memoir about Identity, Belonging, and Rediscovering God. And whew, I will be thinking about this one for a while. Kaitlin writes frankly and poetically about the intersections of her Indigenous identity and Christian faith, while also exploring themes of caring for creation, politics, colonization, and decentering whiteness. There's a lot to take in, but it's a journey worth taking with this thoughtful, brave writer. ⁠
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In this book, Kaitlin writes frankly and poetically about the intersections of her Indigenous identity and Christian upbringing, and the tensions that live in that space with her. Kaitlin grew up in the midst of white evangelical culture, where her Potawatomi identity was constantly erased. Native is the story of reconnecting with her heritage and discovering what it means to belong to the land and her people, exploring themes of creation care, politics, colonization, and decentering whiteness along the way.

If that sounds like a lot, it’s because it is. As a memoir, it’s a work of raw vulnerability, one that she has noted was incredibly difficult to write. “I feel deep within my bones what it means to be one who is removed, one who is assimilated, one whose people remain invisible.” she writes. “And yet, our stories will always carry us, because that is exactly what they are meant to do.”

You could say this is a book written from the middle of a painful journey, where she recounts the dismantling of her comfortable faith, and the rebuilding into something new and more whole. She speaks of her ancestors, of hearing from them in dreams. She writes about laying tobacco on the water as she prays, and teaching her children about the ways of their ancestors. No doubt some Christian readers might squirm a little at this language. I found it beautiful to witness a young woman coming home to herself.

So there’s the story of her own personal experience, and, in the background, a bigger, darker story of colonization, Native erasure, mistreatment of the land, and white supremacy. If you aren’t familiar with the language of social justice, it might be a lot to take in. Maybe you’ll wonder, what exactly does it mean when she talks about settler faith or decolonizing our perspective? Rather than a book written to educate you or spell everything out, Native is an invitation to sit still, listen, and perhaps be uncomfortable. But it’s a journey worth taking with this thoughtful, brave writer. And if listening is how we open the door to change, then let us listen closer. Highly recommended for any Christian reader who wants to listen and learn from the Indigenous perspective. (Which, honestly, should be all of us.)

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A must-read for 2020!
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“Once we open our imaginations to the reality of the value that Indigenous and Black people carry, it will inevitably create a different future for all of use, a future that I believe God envisioned from the very beginning, a vision of a world full of fierce love and sacred belonging.”

Loved the experience of reading this book by Kaitlin Curtice! It felt like decolonization, therapy, church, deconstruction, purity culture takedown, and tea with a friend all at once. It honors all of the human emotions and experiences, and is accessible to readers regardless of their background. It definitely made me look closely at myself and the systems I am a part of to see where I am benefiting from my whiteness and how I can challenge myself and others to make changes. My home, church, and the school where I teach are located on Gabrielino-Tongva land, and I’m going to start doing the work now to see how I can honor and support them, as well as teach my students about them. As a teacher, I’ve always felt uncomfortable with the Columbus and Thanksgiving narratives and avoided teaching my students about it, but after this book I feel more equipped to fill that space in better ways rather than silence. Thank you Kaitlin for sharing your story, words, and heart with us. It’s truly a gift.

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A beautiful book
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"If we are to believe that the inclusive love of God is real, we'd better start building a bigger table."
- Kaitlin Curtice, "Native: Identity, Belonging, and Rediscovering God"

I truly appreciate and value Kaitlin Curtice's perspective and experiences as a Potawatomi woman and Christian. Her faithfulness to her culture, history and Jesus offer a rare glimpse into what Christianity can and should be about - a faith that works to decolonize, dismantle white supremacy, and love others as Jesus does. Her book is a wonderful example of how our cultural identities need not conflict with our spiritual journey - in fact, they are all the more beautiful when interwoven and reconciled to one another. Her writing is poetic, and while a few sections felt slightly disjointed to me, I knew throughout that she would lead me to a place of beauty, and I am better for it.

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K.R.
Eye and heart opening
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 8, 2020
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I enjoy the truth of the story of Indigenous Spirituality and how connected it is to Celtic Spirituality. It was helpful to know torn violent history thank you Helen

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so good and so important
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I love this book. It's such an important topic, such an important way of weaving identity, cultural roots and faith into one conversation. I feel like how it's approached is relevant, progressive and thought-provoking.

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Amazing book that every Christian should read!
Reviewed in Canada on May 18, 2020
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This book should hold a place on every Christian's bookshelf. I grew up learning a very white version of Christianity. Although my parents raised me to care for others and pursue justice, I was also inundated with a Christianity that was dominated by whiteness. I attended a Bible college that was almost completely white and had little concern for the marginalized. During that time I began the path of decolonizing my faith. As I progressed on the journey, I began to see the roots of white supremacy all around my school, and in my past. Kaitlin Curtice's book has helped me reconstruct my faith on the principles of Jesus and not whiteness. I only wish I could have read this sooner, or heard it taught in my school. Although that seems like an impossibility to me, I dream of a day when the white church repents of their sins and humbled themselves to learn from BIPOC like Kaitlin Curtice. Her poetry and artful words only add to the pleasure of reading such an amazing book!

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Reviewed in Canada on May 10, 2020
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Kaitlin Curtice has given us a gift.
If you love an Indigenous person, you need to read this book. If you are currently attending a church, you need to read this book, if you are an Indigenous person, you need to read this book, if you are looking to hear and read from Indigenous authors or women of colour, you need to read this book.
Curtice speaks her truth. I am an Indigenous woman, and her truth speaks to my truth. This book can be a hard truth for some to read, but it’s an important truth. It is a beautiful invitation to community, to breaking down walls, to recognizing and fighting injustice. Please, accept this invitation.

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Courageous Woman, Courageous Journey
Reviewed in Canada on August 31, 2020
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This book was one of the things that I packed for my recent camping/retreat days at Sunbow Lake. The author, Kaitlin B Curtice, writes with candor and clarity about her wrestling with what it means to be both a Potawatomi woman (of 'mixed blood') and a Christian. Although she relates from where she has come on her rich spiritual journey, her writing is devoid of cliche, easy answers and prescriptions. She writes as one in process, learning to live the questions (as Rilke said), reflecting courage and integrity while shaping the unformed future - while 'making the road by walking' (Machado).

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