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We Have a Religion : The 1920s Pueblo Indian Dance Controversy and American Religious Freedom /
For Native Americans, religious freedom has been an elusive goal. From nineteenth-century bans on indigenous ceremonial practices to twenty-first-century legal battles over sacred lands, peyote use, and hunting practices, the U.S. government has often acted as if Indian traditions were somehow not t...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chapel Hill :
Published in association with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University by the University of North Carolina Press,
2009.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | For Native Americans, religious freedom has been an elusive goal. From nineteenth-century bans on indigenous ceremonial practices to twenty-first-century legal battles over sacred lands, peyote use, and hunting practices, the U.S. government has often acted as if Indian traditions were somehow not truly religious and therefore not eligible for the constitutional protections of the First Amendment. In this book, Tisa Wenger shows that cultural notions about what constitutes ""religion"" are crucial to public debates over religious freedom.In the 1920's, Pueblo Indian leaders in New Mexic. |
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| Notas: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (360 pages). |
| ISBN: | 9781469605869 |