As I finish writing a book manuscript about the US Supreme Court 1988 case Lyng v. Northwest Indian Cemetery Protective Association, I am reminded of my first encounter with Kathleen Sands’s work. I was a doctoral student then, and what has since become an obsession with the Lyng case was just beginning to grow in me. I came across this case and was immediately intrigued because of the strong connections it had demonstrated between religion and land. See, in Israel/Palestine, where I grew u...
