Sightings Articles
Reckoning with Re-education: Christianity’s Role in Native American Boarding Schools
American Christians must reckon with colonial history and cooperate with US government's “Road to Healing" initiative....
July 6, 2022
Loss and Continuation: Lessons from the Popol Vuh
An ancient Maya tradition on keeping those we've lost alive...
June 10, 2021
DNA Tests, Indigenous Identity, and "Playing Indian"
Absent real connections to Native communities, spiritual hucksters and “wannabe Indians” not only do harm to the communities whose cultures they appropriate, but they also divert attention away from other serious issues affecting Native communities. ...
January 10, 2019
A Season of Myths
“Freedom is the will to be responsible for ourselves.” -Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols (Götzendämmerung) This past week people in the USA entered the “season of myths” that runs from Thanksgiving through various religious holi...
November 26, 2018
Sacred Sites Violated
What if the Sioux Nation decided to build a pipeline through Arlington Cemetery? This question from Faith Spotted Eagle—who lacks a Ph.D. in comparative religion and who would never be employed to teach the phenomenology of burial ritual—got at the h...