LCC
E99 P6 W45 2009
Description
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
Publication
Chapel Hill, NC: Pub. in assoc. with the William P. Clemts Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist Univ., by The University of North Carolina Press (2009), Paperback, 336 pages
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