The University Libraries’ Indigenous Nations Library Program presents “The Religious Dimension of Federal Indian Law” as part of the Native Pathways Lecture Series on Wednesday, Nov. 12, at 3 p.m. in the Willard Reading Room in UNM’s Zimmerman Library.
The lecture will feature Steven T. Newcomb, co-founder and co-director of the Indigenous Law Institute. He will discuss his research on Christianity’s role in U.S. federal Indian law since colonization.
In his newest book, “Pagans in the Promised Land,” Newcomb challenges the assumption that American Indian nations were legitimately subject to the power of the United States during colonization. Further, he asserts that there is no separation of church and state in the United States, so long as Christian undertones are the basis of U.S. federal Indian law.
“The purpose of this lecture series is to make students and faculty aware of native people who are in academia and who are making a change,” said Savannah Gene, student lecture coordinator for the Indigenous Nations Library Program. Gene is a senior in the School of Architecture and Planning.
The day’s events include a brown bag lunch at 11 a.m.-noon in the Herzstein Room in Zimmerman Library, by the lecture at 3 p.m. in the Willard Reading Room. Both events are free and open to the public.
For more information, call Savannah Gene or the Indigenous Nations Library Program at 277-7433.
Story by Jazmyn Bradford
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