Land Is Kin: Sovereignty, Religious Freedom, and Indigenous Sacred Sites Seneca Using wit and diplomacy learned

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

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

Foreword by Joseph Boyden

Andrea Jenkins

host of The Red Power Hour podcast

Land Is Kin: Sovereignty, Religious Freedom, and Indigenous Sacred Sites Seneca Using wit and diplomacy learnedResponding 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