Land Is Kin: Sovereignty, Religious Freedom, and Indigenous Sacred Sites Seneca Andrea Jenkins

Andrea Jenkins

A highly-relatable story for Indigenous kids and any kid that has ever outgrown their favorite thing to wear

Using wit and diplomacy learned in their Native cultures and often assigned to women

their shifting relationship as brothers

Kaandossiwin renders these methods visible and helps to guard other ways of knowing from colonial repression

Land Is Kin: Sovereignty, Religious Freedom, and Indigenous Sacred Sites Seneca Andrea JenkinsResponding to Vine Deloria, Jr.'s call for all people to "become involved" in the struggle to protect Indigenous sacred sites, Dana Lloyd's Land Is Kin proposes a rethinking of sacred sites, and a rethinking of even land itself. Deloria suggested using the principle of religious freedom, but this principle has failed Indigenous peoples for decades. Lloyd argues that religious freedom fails Indigenous claimants because settler law creates a tension