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Abstract

Comments delivered as part of the “Virtual Consultation on Legal Framework: Indigenous Peoples and the Right to Freedom of Religion or Belief,” held June 22, 2022. For details on the Special Rapporteur’s report, see Ahmed Shaheed, “Interim Report of the Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion or Belief. Indigenous Peoples and the Right to Freedom of Religion or Belief” (New York: United Nations, October 10, 2022), https://www.ohchr.org/en/ documents/thematic-reports/a77514-interim-report-special-rapporteur-freedom-religion-or-belief.

INTRODUCTION

Michael McNally, Carleton College

Michael D. McNally (Carleton, B.A.; Harvard, M.Div., M.A., Ph.D.), 2001-, teaches on American religion and culture and Native American traditions. Special interests include Indigenous traditions and the law, tradition and history of Minnesota’s Anishinaabe/Ojibwe people, and Indigenized Christianities. He is author of three books: Defend the Sacred: Native American Religious Freedom beyond the 1st Amendment (Princeton, 2020); Honoring Elders: Aging, Authority, and Ojibwe Religion (2009), and Ojibwe Singers: Hymns, Grief, and a Native Culture in Motion (2000), as well as book chapters, law review, and academic journal articles. At Carleton he is Director of the American Studies Program and Co-Director of Carleton’s 3-yr Mellon-funded Indigenous Engagement in Place Initiative. He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2017 for his work on Native religions and law.