Land Is Kin: Sovereignty, Religious Freedom, and Indigenous Sacred Sites

Land Is Kin: Sovereignty, Religious Freedom, and Indigenous Sacred SitesResponding to Vine Deloria, Jr.'s call for all people to "become involved" in the struggle to protect Indigenous sacred sites, Dana Lloyd's Land Is Kin proposes a rethinking of sacred sites, and a rethinking of even land itself. Deloria suggested using the principle of religious freedom, but this principle has failed Indigenous peoples for decades. Lloyd argues that religious freedom fails Indigenous claimants because settler law creates a tension

grounding its stories in the landscapes and lifeworlds of the Native Northwest

But a catastrophic event on Earth

Brook Thompson learned to care for the fish that nurtured her and her family

Blackfoot Physics is the account of his discoveries

and community in the face of the profound changes brought by settlers

was one of the first ethnologists to specialize in the study of American Indian music and culture

it is a homecoming - a return to ceremony after some time away

Shortly before his death in August

John-Kehewin plays with form

organizing

As Toypurina grew and became medicine woman of her tribe

where she grew up after being born in an Appalachian prison