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Abstract

Brett and Hill review several books, including The Urgency of Indigenous Values by Philip P. Arnold, Banning Black Gods: Law and Religions of the African Diaspora by Danielle N. Boaz and Voodoo: The History of a Racial Slur by Danielle N. Boaz.

INTRODUCTION

Arnold, Philip P. 2023 The Urgency of Indigenous Values. Haudenosaunee and Indigenous Worlds. Syracuse University Press. Boaz, Danielle N. 2021. Banning Black Gods: Law and Religions of the African Diaspora. Africana Religions. University Park, Pennsylvania: The Pennsylvania State University Press.

Boaz, Danielle N. 2023. Voodoo: The History of a Racial Slur. New York, NY: Oxford University Press. Butler, Anthea D. 2021. White Evangelical Racism: The Politics of Morality in America. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press. Chaves, João B. 2022. The Global Mission of the Jim Crow South: Southern Baptist Missionaries and the Shaping of Latin American Evangelicalism. Perspectives on Baptist Identities. Macon, Georgia: Mercer University Press. Chaves, João B., and Mikeal C. Parsons. 2023. Remembering Antônia Teixeira: A Story of Missions, Violence, and Institutional Hypocrisy. Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans.

d'Errico, Peter P. 2022. Federal Anti-Indian Law: The Legal Entrapment of Indigenous Peoples. New York: Bloomsbury. Jones, Robert P. 2024. The Hidden Roots of White Supremacy: And the Path to a Shared American Future. Simon and Schuster. Pbk. With New Afterword. Lloyd, Dana. 2024. Land Is Kin: Sovereignty, Religious Freedom, and Indigenous Sacred Sites. Studies in US Religion, Politics, and Law. Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas.

Ngata, Tina. 2019. Kia Mau: Resisting Colonial Fictions. 1sted. Wellington: Rebel Press. https://tinangata.com/2020/06/14/kia-mau-resisting-colonial-fictions/. Schwartzberg, Steven J. 2023. Arguments over Genocide: The War of Words in the Congress and the Supreme Court over Cherokee Removal. Bradford: Ethics International Press Limited.

Smith, A. Lynn. 2023. Memory Wars: Settlers and Natives Remember Washington's Sullivan Expedition of 1779. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. Te Tākupu. 2023. The Power in Our Truth, the Truth in Our Power: Recollections of Moana. Ōtaki, Aotearoa: Te Tākupu, Te Wānanga o Raukawa.

Instead of detailed book reviews, some journals publish book notes. Book notes tend to be shorter snapshots and encapsulated recent books within a particular field. Likewise, we seek to do the same thing here. In recent years, there has been an appreciable upswing in scholarly studies and analysis of topics related to what Shawnee/Lenape scholar Steven T. Newcomb called the Domination Code or Dominion framework. While this list is not the total of recent books on dominion, here are some types we have found to be evocative and germane to the work outlined in this special edition. In alphabetical order by author, here are some of the titles we have found to be generative.

Arnold, Philip P. 2023. The Urgency of Indigenous Values. Haudenosaunee and Indigenous Worlds. Syracuse University Press.

Here, Philip P. Arnold outlines the collaborative "Two Row Wampum" methodology that he and his wife, Sandra Bigtree (Mohawk Nation), have used for decades in their work around the Doctrine of Discovery and Indigenous values. This methodology takes its name from the Two Row Wampum Treaty of 1613, which was the first treaty between the Haudenosaunee and the Dutch. This treaty, which is still in effect today, speaks of two nations mutually rowing down the river of life together, each in their own canoe/boat, taking care of the natural world and tending to the needs and responsibilities of their people. As a methodological approach, this situates Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples side-by-side, working collaboratively to address the urgent needs of our world. Taking to heart the lessons of Onondaga Nation Turtle Clan Faithkeeper Oren Lyons, especially the call for a "value change for survival," Arnold reminds readers that the way forward and through our present climate catastrophe is listening to traditional Indigenous voices, returning Indigenous lands to Indigenous hands, and learning to live in balance and harmony with the natural world by paying attentionand embracing the gift economy. [End Page 541]

Throughout the book, Arnold demonstrates how the Doctrine of Christian Discovery is the origin point for enslavement, exploitation, and extraction today. 1The Christian religious nationalism of the Doctrine of Christian Discovery then needs to be repudiated, rescinded, and dismantled to help stop the ecological crisis. Ideological domination and planetary dominion are...