This is about Native Americans and their struggle for autonomy within the largest white American Pentecostal denomination, the Assemblies of God. Tarango sets the study within the parameters of the ‘indigenous principle’, an ideal of many early Pentecostal missionaries, by which ‘native’ churches would govern, finance and propagate themselves. She shows how Native Americans took a principle introduced by white missionaries and turned it into a tool to resist paternalism, ethnocentrism and racism, and to fight for autonomy. This autonomy was not completely realised until 2007 -- if having an elected Native American representative on the ruling Assemblies of God Executive Council for the first time can be considered autonomy. The study is based on Assemblies of God periodicals and archival sources, and interviews with leaders. It traces the history from its beginnings with white American missionaries in 1918 until the present day, with the sometimes fraught relationships between missionaries and Native leaders. The chapters are arranged chronologically. The book discusses the origins and importance of the ‘indigenous principle’ to Pentecostal missionary practice, follows the early missionaries and Native evangelists and their conversion narratives, how white and Native preachers responded to traditional religious practices, the creation and operation of a Native Bible school and the ministry of Native American preachers, and the struggle for autonomy. The book provides the reader with an interesting account of the ambivalence of a major Pentecostal denomination when it comes to its own values concerning race and class, and it reminds readers of the often neglected plight of America's original inhabitants.