chaput is about 20=25% native american, potowotomi tribe. He was raised in the midwest in a city and is not a cultural Native American. Many milllions of people in the US have Native blood, but being born, living on the rez and struggling with the ongoing challenges of the tribe, belongs to those who are in tight knit clans, family groups, and work together. That would not be Chaput. There are some Native Americans who are christians, who Dr. Tinker, a full blood Ute at Iliff School of Theology, calls 'nominal christians'... and there are some tight knit communities of Native people and catholic people who are close as fingers in a mitten for decades now, but that would not be chaput's bailiwick.