Title We have a religion : the 1920s Pueblo Indian dance controversy and American religious freedom / Tisa Wenger

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

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Description 1 online resource (xx, 333 pages) : illustrations, map Series Book collections on Project MUSE 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 Summary 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 1920s, Pueblo Indian leaders in New Mexico Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL English digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Print version record Subject Pueblo dance. Pueblo Indians -- Religion. Pueblo Indians -- Rites and ceremonies Christianity and culture -- Southwest, New Christianity and other religions -- Southwest, New Racism -- Religious aspects -- Christianity. Religious tolerance -- Southwest, New RELIGION -- Ethnic & Tribal. Christianity Christianity and culture Interfaith relations Pueblo dance Pueblo Indians -- Religion Pueblo Indians -- Rites and ceremonies Racism -- Religious aspects -- Christianity Religious tolerance Christentum Synkretismus Tanz Ritus New Southwest Puebloindianer. Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 2008040651 ISBN 9780807894217 0807894214 9781469605869 1469605864

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