McNally, Michael D.
Defend the Sacred: Native American Religious Freedom beyond the First Amendment
- ISBN 13:
- 9780691190907
- author:
- McNally, Michael D.
- format:
- Paperback / softback
- publisher:
- Princeton University Press
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2020
- Pages:
- 400
- Dimensions:
- 23.5 x 15.6 centimetres (0.59 kg
- Genre:
- Nonfiction,Law, Civil Rights,
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 10 working days
Description
Defend the Sacred: Native American Religious Freedom Beyond the First Amendment explores the history and impact of Native American claims to sacred places and practices based on religious freedom. In 2016, thousands of people travelled to North Dakota to protest an oil pipeline that threatened the region's clean water and sacred sites. The protesters' resolve was clear in a red banner: "Defend the Sacred". This book examines why Native communities have repeatedly made such claims, despite limited success in US courts. Michael McNally recounts how Native Americans have used appeals to religious freedom to assert their rights to sacred places, practices, objects, knowledge, and ancestral remains. The author argues that this approach has been hindered by the difficulty of capturing Native American communal traditions within the modern Western category of "religion".
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