![]() This article addresses emergent religious formations at protest scenes in the broader context of indigenous organization and identity-building. Our central example is the Standing Rock protest in North Dakota, 2016–2017, a local encampment-based event that quickly expanded into an international indigenous peoples' movement. They range from Prohibition-era gangsters like Al. Alcatraz Island (/ æ l k t r æ z /) is a small island 1.25 miles (2.01 km) offshore from San Francisco, California, United States. We argue that religion was a key register in the camps, during direct actions, and in solidarity actions around the world, primarily expressed through a limited selection of key terms: water is sacred, water is life, Mother Earth, and ceremony. A list of the most renowned inmates at Alcatraz federal prison reads like a who’s who of 20th-century criminals. ![]() We argue, moreover, that these terms, and "ceremony" in particular, were a crucial medium of inter-group and up-scaled cultural translations, allowing local identities to come forth as a unified front. Invoking Standing Rock religion(s) as an instance of the broader category indigenous religion(s), we suggest that these identity formations belong to a globalizing indigenous religious formation, anchored in, yet distinct from, discrete indigenous religions, and today performed and mediated in diverse arenas, crisscrossing and connecting indigenous worlds. ![]() SALE The Alcatraz is a 16 feet tall tripod featuring a mesh swivel seat that allows for 360 degrees of viewing. The Alcatraz is a 16 feet tall tripod featuring a mesh swivel seat that allows for 360 degrees of viewing. We are concerned with the translations and comparisons at play, and with the sentiments and moodiness of religion in this particular case, fueled by the cause (a planned pipeline on ancestral lands), the brutality of police encounters, and the sharing of ceremonies, food, and fires at the camps. ![]()
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