Today we remember John Roberts* (Different one)

               Deuteronomy 32:1-4a*

Give 
ear, 

O 
heav-

ens,
and 
I will
speak;

let the 

earth 

hear the words of my mouth. 

May my teaching drop like the rain, 

my speech condense like the dew; 

          like gentle rain on grass, 

         like showers on new growth. 

For I will proclaim the name of the Lord: 

          ascribe greatness to our God.    The Rock, his work in work is perfect 

             and all his ways are just.

“In 1868, a treaty was signed with the Shoshone people estab-lishing for them (a eup-hemism?) a reservation in the west central part of Wyoming Territory.  In 1878, they were joined (another?) by their longtime adversaries the Arapaho (I mean, for goodness sake, they're all Indians right?!) on what would become The Wind River Indian Reservation, which is much in the news today.” 

John Roberts was a priest born in Wales in 1849, was did mission work among the Shoshoni and Arapaho in Wyoming. He arrived in 1883, 15 years after it was established, where he lived and worked until his death in 1949. 

“Unlike other missionaries … Roberts sought to honor and respect the ancient ways of the Native peoples while at the same time proclaiming the Gospel among them.”