Jane Kubat Weichel, the author of “Their Road to Christianity”, is interviewed by Benji Cole of CBS Radio
Jane Kubat Weichel, the wisdom-filled author of “Their Road to Christianity”, is interviewed by CBS Radio’s Benji Cole. They delve into the book’s message as well as the author’s purpose for writing it.
Jane Kubat Weichel, the author, is a retired teacher and lives on a farm in western Oklahoma with her husband. They are involved in farming and ranching operations. The author is interested in refinishing and upholstering furniture and in gardening. She has always considered herself an artisan; since she was a child, she has loved making things with her hands. When she was in high school, she sewed her own clothes. She has been creating leather garments that are sold in western clothing stores.
Currently, she and her husband have two (2) children. She taught in school for twenty-one (21) years. Her interest in history led her sewing project into a new field: making quilts that replicated the bed covers made by artisans of long ago.
The book titled “Their Road to Christianity” is a true story about the Cheyenne and Arapaho people in Oklahoma. It includes a brief history of the early Native American people, America’s European invasion, the devastating changes that resulted in the lives of the Indian people, and the missionaries from the Reformed Church in America that came to their rescue.
The book focuses on the Plains Indians when they were placed on reservations in western Oklahoma and about John Seger, their teacher, their agent, their Indian farmer, and the man whom they trusted more than any other White man.
The book details the Cheyenne and Arapaho people when they left the reservation with John Seger and built the first Indian Industrial Training School in America on their Indian settlement, which was originally called Seger’s Colony in Indian Territory and later, Colony, Oklahoma. The book includes their struggle with converting to Christianity and a European/American lifestyle.
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