Land Is Kin: Sovereignty, Religious Freedom, and Indigenous Sacred Sites Seneca Foreword by Joseph Boyden

Foreword by Joseph Boyden

Andrea Jenkins

while also working within institutions and a society that was created to oppress them

the authors disrupt long-held and enduring myths such as:

warrior identity

Land Is Kin: Sovereignty, Religious Freedom, and Indigenous Sacred Sites Seneca Foreword by Joseph BoydenResponding 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