Donald Suluk
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Donald Suluk was an Inuit
religious figure who preached a syncretic form of Christianity in Nunavut in the 1940s.
Suluk promoted practices such as the use of crucifixes, but also heterodox practices such as using his dog to make people confess.
Inuit
The Inuit are a group of culturally similar indigenous peoples inhabiting the Arctic regions of Canada , Denmark , Russia and the United States . Inuit means “the people” in the Inuktitut language...
religious figure who preached a syncretic form of Christianity in Nunavut in the 1940s.
Suluk promoted practices such as the use of crucifixes, but also heterodox practices such as using his dog to make people confess.
Sources
- Aparecida Vilaça, Robin Wright. Native Christians: Modes and Effects of Christianity Among Indigenous Peoples of the Americas. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2009 ISBN 0-7546-6355-8, 978-0-7546-6355-3