Indigenous Religious Traditions in Five Minutes - Molly Bassett
42. What’s the relationship between Indigenous religion and land or territory?
Indigenous Religious Traditions in Five Minutes - Molly Bassett
Chris Jocks [+]
Northern Arizona University
Chris Jocks, Kahnawà:ke Mohawk, is Senior Lecturer in Applied Indigenous Studies at Northern Arizona University. He earned his Ph.D. in religious studies under the direction of Inés Talamantez at University of California, Santa Barbara, in 1994. His work includes publications on conceptual incongruity between Indigenous and settler state societies and nations, as manifest in law, religion, and social practices. He is also engaged with local Indigenous community advocacy in northern Arizona.
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The inquiry behind this question can begin to advance only if the question is drastically reframed, since “religion,” “land,” and “territory”—to some extent even “relationship”—are substantives that drive us further away from any useful appraisal. We need a language of relationships rather than objects.