Defend the Sacred - Native American Religious Freedom Beyond the First Amendment

About the author

Michael D. McNally is the John M. and Elizabeth W. Musser Professor of Religious Studies at Carleton College. He is the author of Honoring Elders: Aging, Authority, and Ojibwe Religion and Ojibwe Singers: Hymns, Grief, and a Native Culture in Motion. Twitter @mcnallymichaeld

Summary

The remarkable story of the innovative legal strategies Native Americans have used to protect their religious rightsFrom North Dakota's Standing Rock encampments to Arizona's San Francisco Peaks, Native Americans have repeatedly asserted legal rights to religious freedom to protect their sacred places, practices, objects, knowledge, and ancestr

Additional text

"[McNally’s] work is likely the most comprehensive on Native American religions and law to date."---James. W. Waters, Reading Religion

Product details

• Authors: Michael D McNally, Michael D. Mcnally, McNally Michael D.
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.04.2020
• EAN: 9780691190907
• ISBN: 978-0-691-19090-7
• No. of pages: 400
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; USA, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civics & Citizenship, Human rights & civil liberties law, HISTORY / United States / General, LAW / Civil Rights, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Indigenous Studies, Indigenous Peoples, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas, Civil rights & citizenship, Law: Human rights and civil liberties, Civics and citizenship, LAW / Indigenous Law & Legal Systems