“Indians, of course, have no 'theology,' and indeed no word for the system of credulity in which the white priests arrange for God, who must be entirely bewildered by it, a series of excuses for his failures.”

The God-Seeker (1949), Ch. 41

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American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright 1885–1951

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