Review: Defend the Sacred: Native American Religious Freedom Beyond the First Amendment, by Michael D. McNally

This important book engages the ongoing struggle of Native Americans to protect the sacred, their land, and treaty rights. Michael McNally recognizes how the term religion as a western category has failed Native Americans through law by not fully interpreting the complexities of Indigenous religions...

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Main Author: Janik, Tarryl (Author)
Format: Electronic Review
Language:English
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Published: University of Californiarnia Press 2023
In: Nova religio
Year: 2023, Volume: 26, Issue: 4, Pages: 130-132
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