Native American Religions Teaching and Learning on Stolen Land

Introduction: Teaching and Learning on Stolen Land

Dana Lloyd

Unit 1: Religion

Introduction

Dana Lloyd

1. Religion, Indigenous Intellectuals, and Other Enlightenments in the Western Hemisphere, c.1600–1800

Timothy Bowers Vasko

2. Scenes of Incorporation and Expulsion: Indigenous Religion, Creativity, and Theory in an Extended Pueblo World

Anthony M. Trujillo

3. If Mama Pacha Could Talk: Andean Ethics in a Time of Pandemic

Cecilia Titizano

4. Traditions, Exchanges, and Visions in the Ghost Dance of 1870

Jennifer Graber

Unit 2: Relations

Introduction

Dana Lloyd

5. The Appropriation of Native North American Religious Traditions

Sarah Dees

6. Indigeneity and Identity: Mixedness/ Race vs. Relationality/ Making Kin

Paul L. Gareau and Carlos Colorado

7. Sacred Relations: Kinship, Gender, and Intimacy

Anca Wilkening

8. Toward Enacting Good Relations: Teaching Native Religions Through Relationship

Abel R. Gomez

Unit 3: Resistance

Introduction

Dana Lloyd

9. Supreme Court Errors in Lyng v. Northwest Indian Cemetery Protective Association (1988)

Robert J. Miller

10. Sites of Spiritual Significance: How Christianity Continues to Colonize Indigenous Peoples in Canada

Daniel Sims

11. Ceremony as Sovereignty: Indigenous Stewardship at Standing Rock

Natalie Avalos

12. Learning from Mauna Kea, Teaching Institutional Accountability

Greg Johnson

Unit 4: Reprise

Introduction

Dana Lloyd

13. Healing Past, Present, and Future: Peyote, Assimilation, and the Native American Church

Nanea Renteria

14. “That I Would Serve in a Good Way”: Boarding Schools, Tribal Colleges, and Dis/Connection

Zara Surratt

15. Thinking through the Land: On the Nature of Land as a Framework

Brian Burkhart

16. (Re)Storying Land: Indigenous Religious Traditions, Landback, and the Village of Tazlina

Elisha Chi

Biography

Dana Lloyd is Assistant Professor of Global Interdisciplinary Studies at Villanova University, U.S.A.

"The short essays that constitute Native American Religions: Teaching and Learning on Stolen Lands open new dimensions in the long and fraught relation between Native religious practice and colonial imposition, a site of power struggles and reinventions, resistances and Indigenous renewal. Structured to serve teachers and learners alike, the collection is on fire, with a range of big ideas arriving in deceptively small packages."

Philip J. Deloria, Leverett Saltonstall Professor, Department of History (Harvard University)

"Native American Religions: Teaching and Learning on Stolen Land—a volume of 16 powerful essays by established and emerging Native and non-Native scholars who teach about Native American and Indigenous religious traditions—offers a crucial reminder that religion and politics are inextricably intertwined. Collectively, the essays demonstrate that any responsible and ethical study of Native American and Indigenous religions must also interrogate the devastating colonial history that has adversely impacted—and continues to impact—the peoples to whom those religious traditions belong."

Marie Alohalani Brown, Professor of Hawaiian Religion, Department of Religions and Ancient Civilizations (University of Hawai’i at Mānoa)

"This is an essential collection of essays from an absolute dream team of established and emerging leaders in the field. Native American Religions is a must-have companion volume for any college or graduate-level course on Indigenous traditions, filled with compelling, multi-disciplinary case studies that provide nuanced examinations of history, theory, and methodology. Highly recommended."

Suzanne Crawford O'Brien, Professor of Religion and Culture and Native American and Indigenous Studies (Pacific Lutheran University)

"One of the great strengths of Native American Religions: Teaching and Learning on Stolen Land is that while reading about present and past Indigenous religious traditions—traditions each of the contributors teaches—students and instructors will find themselves reflecting on the contexts and communities in which they live and learn. Native and non-Native contributors cover a range of contemporary and historical topics relevant to a number of Indigenous communities. As strong as the volume’s content is, its prompt to rethink action in relation to teaching and learning on lands taken from Indigenous people make it compelling."

Molly H. Bassett, Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Religious Studies (Georgia State University)

"Dana Lloyd has designed an innovative, action-oriented introduction to what matters most for today’s students of Native American religious traditions. The book is ideal for anyone interested in understanding or contributing to contemporary Indigenous social justice movements. Particularly useful are discussion questions and additional resources, serving as springboards for class discussions and starting points for student research projects."

Seth Schermerhorn, author of Walking to Magdalena and co-editor of Indigenous Religious Traditions and Movement and Indigenous Religions

"This powerful and pedagogically rich volume offers a transformative framework for engaging Native American religious traditions. Through themes of sovereignty, relationality, resistance, and ceremonial revitalization, it explores landback ethics, gender and kinship, visionary traditions, and the harms of cultural appropriation. Essential reading for educators and scholars committed to decolonial approaches to religion and Indigenous self-determination."

Hilda P. Koster, Sisters of St Joseph of Toronto Chair and Associate Professor in Ecological Theology, Toronto School of Theology (University of Toronto)