“Is Smudging a Religious Ritual?” Rosalyn LaPier is an award winning Indigenous writer and historian, who is an assistant professor of environmental studies at the University of Montana. She studies the intersection of Indigenous environmental knowledge learned from elders and the academic study of history and religion of Indigenous people. Rosalyn is an enrolled member of the Blackfeet Tribe of Montana and Métis. She is working on her third book project, “Plants That Purify: The Natural and Supernatural History of Smudging”, as a visiting professor at the Harvard Divinity School.
This lecture is part of the Carleton Sociology and Anthropology Colloquium Series. It is co-sponsored by the Department of History and the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies. For more information, please e-mail Michel_Hogue@carleton.ca