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Churches meld native Catholic belief
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AUGUST 18, 2000

Churches throughout the nation, such as the St. Augustine Indian Mission on the Winnebago reservation in Nebraska, are blending traditional Native and new Catholic beliefs.

The movement to have the Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha, a Mohawk woman baptized in 1676, declared a saint is one of the primary examples of the two belief systems coming together and co-existing.

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