Lecture: “Indigenous Religious Traditions and Law in the Current Political Moment”
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Date & Time
Tue, Oct 28 4:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Address (map)
Multicultural Center, Santa Barbara, CA 93106
Venue (website)
MultiCultural Center
The Walter H. Capps Center for the Study of Ethics, Religion, and Public Life will present “Indigenous Religious Traditions and Law in the Current Political Moment,” a panel of tribal authorities, legal experts, and scholars on October 28, 2025, at 4:00pm in UCSB’s Multicultural Center (MCC) Theater. This event is free and open to the public.
How are Indigenous communities in the U.S. facing challenges to their ways of life in the current political moment? Focusing on questions concerning repatriation, land access, education, and diverse forms of sovereignty, panelists will explore the intersection of Indigenous religious traditions and law. Panelists include tribal authorities, legal experts, and scholars. The discussion will begin with campus-level and regional considerations, with specific reference to Chumash contexts, and then will expand outward to borderland settings, Oklahoma, the Great Lakes, and the Pacific.
A reception, held 5:30-6:30 PM in the MCC Lounge, will follow the panel.
This event is funded by a grant from the Henry Luce Foundation, and co-sponsored by the UCSB Multicultural Center.
For more information, visit: https://www.cappscenter.ucsb.edu/news/indigenous-religious-traditions-and-law-current-political-moment
