Indigenous Religious Traditions in Five Minutes - Molly Bassett
36. Why reconstruct pre-colonial Indigenous religions in the Americas?
Indigenous Religious Traditions in Five Minutes - Molly Bassett
Yanitsa Buendía de Llaca [+]
University of California, Santa Barbara
Yanitsa Buendía de Llaca is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her research focuses on Aztec and Toltec revitalization movements, from the Mexicayotl to Macehualiztli, and their intersections with other Indigenous movements and Mexican New Age.
Description
The conquest, colonization, and settlement of the Americas is a process in which European immigrants and their descendants actively take over land and resources from Indigenous and Native peoples. Since colonization is an ongoing process, reconstructions of Native and Indigenous religious practices and identities are also in constant challenge to both historical and present impositions.