1st Edition

Movement and Indigenous Religions

Edited By Meaghan Weatherdon, Seth Schermerhorn Copyright 2024
124 Pages
by Routledge

124 Pages
by Routledge

124 Pages
by Routledge

This edited book brings together leading scholars in the field of Indigenous religions working with Indigenous Peoples from the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Europe to examine various Indigenous discourses, practices, and politics of movement, as they intersect with issues of religion and spirituality. Indigenous Peoples and their religious traditions have always been mobile and adaptive.... Read more

Introduction—Movement and Indigenous Religions: A Reconsideration of Mobile Ways of Knowing and Being
Meaghan Weatherdon and Seth Schermerhorn

1. Belonging to (Not “in”) Land as Performed at Indigenous Cultural Events
Graham Harvey

2. Pilgrimage as Peoplehood: Indigenous Relations and Self-Determination at Places of Catholic Pilgrimage in Mi’kma’ki and the Métis Homeland
Paul L. Gareau and Jeanine Leblanc

3. Indigenous Movement, Settler Colonialism: A History of Tlicho Dene Continuity through Travel
David S. Walsh

4. The Politics and Poetics of O’odham Categories of Movement: Movement in Discourse and Practice
Seth Schermerhorn

5. Walking the Law throughout the Journey of Nishiyuu
Meaghan Weatherdon

6. A Veterans’ Talking Circle: Urban Indian Peoplehood and Re-Indigenizing Places
Natalie Avalos

7. Mobility, Relationality, and the Decolonizing of Religious Studies: A Response to the Special Issue
Devaka Premawardhana

Biography

Meaghan Weatherdon is Assistant Professor in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at the University of San Diego on Kumeyaay land, USA. Her research focuses on spirituality and land based activism. She is currently completing a manuscript tentatively titled, The Rise of Nishiyuu: Walking the Land for Self-Determination.

Seth Schermerhorn is Associate Professor and Director of the American Studies Program at Hamilton College on traditional Oneida territory, USA. He is co-editor of Indigenous Religious Traditions and author of Walking to Magdalena: Personhood and Place in Tohono O'odham Songs, Sticks, and Stories (2019).