Seth Schermerhorn is an Associate Professor and the Director of American Studies at Hamilton College in Central New York (USA).

Lecture: “Walking to Magdalena: Personhood and Place in Tohono O'odham Songs, Sticks, and Stories”

Abstract: In Walking to Magdalena, Seth Schermerhorn explores a question that is central to the interface of religious studies and Native American and Indigenous studies: What have Native peoples made of Christianity? By focusing on the annual pilgrimage of the Tohono O'odham to Magdalena in Sonora, Mexico, Schermerhorn examines how these transnational Indigenous people of southern Arizona have made Christianity their own. This walk serves as the entry point for larger questions about what the Tohono O'odham have made of Christianity.