Teaching with Native American and Indigenous Religions on Stolen Land

This roundtable asks: What can the future of teaching Native American and Indigenous religious studies course look like in contrast to earlier practice? How can theories and methods from Native American and Indigenous studies offer critical interventions and adaptations to religious studies pedagogy, making any course more responsive to questions of social justice?  In lieu of probing Indigenous religious traditions themselves, this roundtable argues for understanding the relationship between Indigenous religions, power, and justice. This involves interrogating the study of religion as an academic field and considering Indigenous contestations and engagements with traditional approaches. Together, the participants speak to the sacred of place, Native American and Indigenous relationality, and ethical relations between Native American and Indigenous, and non-Indigenous peoples. Altogether, this roundtable offers non-specialists who find themselves teaching content related to Native American and Indigenous religions a resource for a decolonized, future-oriented pedagogy.