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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wenger, Tisa Joy, 1969-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: 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.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Pueblos and Catholics in Protestant America
  • Cultural modernists and Indian religion
  • Land, sovereignty, and the modernist deployment of "religion"
  • Dance is (not) religion : the struggle for authority in Indian affairs
  • The implications of religious freedom
  • Religious freedom and the category of religion into the twenty-first century.