Indigenous Religious Traditions in Five Minutes - Molly Bassett
47. What role does pilgrimage play in Indigenous religious life?
Indigenous Religious Traditions in Five Minutes - Molly Bassett
Paul L. Gareau [+]
University of Alberta
Paul L. Gareau is Métis and an assistant professor in the Faculty of Native Studies at the University of Alberta. His research and teaching centers on theory and methodology around religion and relationality, gender, Indigenous epistemologies, land and place, and sovereignty/peoplehood.
Jeanine LeBlanc [+]
University of Alberta, PhD candidate
Jeanine LeBlanc is Mi’kmaw and a doctoral candidate at the Faculty of Native Studies at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Her research explores Mi’kmaw women’s lived experiences of religion, Indigenous women’s engagement with religion, and Indigenous feminisms.
Description
When discussing what role pilgrimage plays in Indigenous religious life, we focus on how religion is relations and movement is a means of relating to Land and Waters across traditional territories. From this relational perspective, sacred places are storied places where nationhood and peoplehood are affirmed, and where visiting can happen.