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A Right No Power Can Take Away: Religious Freedom and the Fight for Catholic Schools Among the Osage.
| Title: | A Right No Power Can Take Away: Religious Freedom and the Fight for Catholic Schools Among the Osage. |
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| Authors: | HOLSCHER, KATHLEEN1 kholscher@unm.edu |
| Source: | Catholic Historical Review. Winter2020, Vol. 106 Issue 1, p1-26. 26p. |
| Abstract: | During the 1870s both Euro-American Catholics and leaders of the Osage Nation fought against federal restrictions on Catholic schools in Indian Territory. During this fight, Native and non-Native advocates argued that the Osage had a right to Catholic schools. For each group, however, the freedom to establish Catholic education in Indian Territory cohered differently; as a right it derived from different sources of authority. On both sides, these sources existed in complex relation to the sovereignty of the U.S. nation-state. Among the Osage, anger over the absence of Catholic schools, and demands for them as a treaty right, speak to Catholicism's importance to the tribe--not as a belief system, but as a site of political possibility amid the crisis provoked by U.S. colonialism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
| Subject Terms: | Catholic education, Freedom of religion, Catholic schools, Osage (North American people), American Catholics, Religion & politics, Church & state |
| Geographic Terms: | United States |
| Company/Entity: | Catholic Church |
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| ISSN: | 00088080 |
| DOI: | 10.1353/cat.2020.0014 |
| Database: | Art & Architecture Complete |
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