A review by douglasferb
The Land Looks After Us: A History of Native American Religion by Joel W. Martin

4.0

I don’t have a ton to say on this book, but I noticed that a few of the negative reviews here focus on the lack of depth, especially when it comes to detailed expositions of Native American belief systems. I think these reviews are missing the point a bit - this book is a *history* of Native American religion, not a systematic theology. As a short introduction to the beliefs of an incredibly diverse collection of societies and the practices that go along with them (and, lest we forget, vice versa), I thought this was pretty decent. For more, well, we should probably look for a book that’s more than 140 pages long.