Indigenous Religious Traditions in Five Minutes - Molly Bassett
53. Why is the public expression of Indigenous Religion political?
Indigenous Religious Traditions in Five Minutes - Molly Bassett
Stacie Swain [+]
University of Victoria, PhD candidate
Stacie Swain is a Ukrainian-British doctoral student in the Department of Political Science and the Indigenous Nationhood Program at the University of Victoria, in lək̓ʷəŋən territories (Victoria, B.C.). Her research considers the intersection of Indigenous ceremony with the categories of religion and politics, particularly in relation to settler colonialism, Indigenous legal orders, and the governance of public space.
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Just as the notion of religion has been shaped by human activity, so has our notion of politics. Public expressions of Indigenous religion may be political as a form of resistance to current political regimes, but also because such expressions are grounded within Indigenous peoples’ own prior and ongoing political systems