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

Andrea Jenkins

and the efforts of profiteers to control the land and unearth treasure beneath it while the lives of individuals hang in the balance

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

their shifting relationship as brothers

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