Native Traditions in the Americas Unit

We invite individual paper and group proposals on any aspect of Native Traditions in the Americas (North, Central and South). In particular, we invite papers on the following topics:

In light of this year's theme "Future/s" we invite proposals for papers or panels that consider possible future paths for Native people's cultural and religious freedom and expression. Some areas of focus might include:

• Black, Brown, and Indigenous solidarities
• Indigenous Futurisms - dystopia, utopia, and everywhere in between
• Can AI technology be used to promote solidarity and resist religious oppression?
• Native identities into the future -  issues such as federal recognition and blood quantum and how these intersect with religion. 

For a co-sponsorship with the Religion and Human Rights unit

• We are interested in how Indigenous thinkers and communities in the Americas use the language of human rights to advocate for respect for religious practices, honor for the land, and more, while recognizing that discourses of  “human rights” often have complicated historical relationships with colonial ideas and institutions. We invite proposals that explore how members and leaders of Indigenous communities in the Americas navigate these nuances, reshaping thinking about “rights” and the well-being of human communities embedded in kinship ties with other species and the world around us.