Native Traditions

Dakota Access Pipeline Protest is a Fight for Religious Freedom - World Religion News

November 14, 2016
DAKOTA ACCESS PIPELINE WILL DESECRATE MANY NATIVE AMERICAN SACRED RELIGIOUS SITES. Native American religion is intrinsically based on nature. Religious places are not man-made structures like churches or mosques, but open landscapes where their nature-gods live. No wonder then, when the Dakota Access Pipeline project came up, Native Americans were outraged at officials not considering the damage it will be causing to the environment and many of their religious sites.

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Obama Holds Private Meeting As Cops Mass Near NoDAPL Front Lines - ICTMN.com

October 30, 2016
While Cheyenne River Sioux Tribal Chairman Harold Frazier sat down with President Barack Obama at a private roundtable in Los Angeles on Tuesday, October 25, Morton County, N.D. Sheriff Kyle Kirchmeier was calling in police reinforcements from six states to enforce Energy Transfer Partners’ demands that “trespassers” be removed from the path of the pipeline.

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From Paris to Standing Rock It’s the Climate Choices Ahead - ICTMN.com

October 17, 2016
TRAHANT REPORTS—Ten months ago the United States told the world it was ready to do something about climate change. Enough talk. Time to act. And because of the nature of the crisis, the world’s governments are moving quickly. Well, at least as measured by governments. On Wednesday President Barack Obama said the global agreement will begin implementation on November 4 after being ratified by European nations.

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Dr. Michael McNally

Dr. Michael McNally is a professor of religion at Carleton College. He became involved with the Pluralism Project while doing his doctoral studies at Harvard University. He was instrumental in developing the Native Peoples' Traditions section of the first edition of On Common Ground: World Religions in America CD-ROM in 1997 and served as a senior academic reviewer of that section in the 2013 updated and online version. He became an affiliate of the Pluralism Project in 2004 with a project on Native American religious and cultural freedom.

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Carleton College
Northfield, MN

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