According to the GSS, here is the distribution of religious affiliations for American Indians (sample size = 1,818--I didn't count the white wannabes)
Percent
Protestant 53.3
Catholic 17.8
None 13.2
Other 7.4
Native American 4.1
Christian 3.3
Buddhist 0.8
Wow! A whopping 4 percent of American Indians belong to an indigenous faith.
According to the most recent GSS Survey (2008), 0.7% of Americans are Amerindians. So the Tucson event catered to--what--about three people? I've got more cousins. Organizers didn't give a damn about the wishes of real, live Indians (or they would have asked a Protestant minister to pray). They really care about their fashionable liberal buddies.
Hilarious!
ReplyDeleteActually, to be more precise, for a population of 308,745,538, I make it 88,609
- which (come to think of it) is indeed almost exactly equal to 3.
I'd bet most of the "Other" are probably "Old-Religionists", too. At least vaguely/peripherally. A better estimate is thus ~1-in-10.
ReplyDeleteOne further point: The American-Indians on the reservations are among the most culturally-depressed people on this planet. That discourages affiliation with that religion. Reservation Indians were one of the groups that inspired the term "Fourth World"!