Indigenous Religious Traditions in Five Minutes - Molly Bassett
49. What is the Idle No More movement, and what’s a round dance?
Indigenous Religious Traditions in Five Minutes - Molly Bassett
Matt Sheedy [+]
Universität Bonn
Matt Sheedy holds a PhD in the study of religion and is visiting professor of North American Studies at the University of Bonn, Germany. His research includes critical theories of secularism and religion, and representations of atheism, Islam, Christianity, and Native American traditions in popular and political culture. His latest book is Owning the Secular: Religious Symbols, Culture Wars, Western Fragility (Routledge 2021).
Description
The Idle No More (IMN) movement began with a Tweet in late October 2012 as part of a teach-in by four women in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan against Bill C-45. This bill would have enabled the Canadian government to roll back treaty rights on First Nations reserves, among other proposed legislation.