RELS 110 Introduction to Native American Religions

A survey of historical and contemporary Native American religious traditions, attending especially to how they have developed amid colonization and resistance.  Students will study the broad variety of ways that Native American traditions imagine land, community, and the sacred, and study the range of practices, ceremonies, and cultural institutions related thereto.  Students will also investigate how these religious traditions have been contested or negotiated when they came in contact with Christian missionaries, in contemporary treaty rights, and in intertribal new religious movements.