Who controls land destiny is a live question about wealth versus prayer throughout society

Evidence

In the final analysis, the survival of Native America is fundamentally about the collective survival of all human beings. The question of who gets to determine the destiny of the land, and of the people who live on it—those with the money or those who pray on the land—is a question that is alive throughout society. — Winona LaDuke, All Our Relations, 68

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Two centuries of court rulings redefined the constitutional common good as corporate profit. — Winona LaDuke, All Our Relations: Native Struggles for…, 980; Enslaving and impoverishing nature is no more tolerable than enslaving humans — Winona LaDuke, All Our Relations: Native Struggles for…, 72; Claims of sacred land ownership secure one group’s dominance over others — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized:…, 120 (+8 more)

Broader Connections

• Claims of sacred land ownership secure one group’s dominance over others #expands (0.85) — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized, 120
• Religion, social status, and property are alternative sources of power across stages #expands (0.85)
• Religion, social status, and property each dominate as power sources at different historical stages #expands (0.85) — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 851
• Religion and social status can be sources of power rivaling property #expands (0.82) — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 846
• Money replaces God as controller of future contingency #expands (0.78) — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration, 488
• Threatened personal control increases faith in God or government interchangeably #corroborates (0.75) — Norenzayan, Ara, Big gods - how religion transformed…, 568
• English agrarian capitalism disciplined church, monarchy, and masses in turn #exemplifies (0.75)
• Racial secularization displaces sovereign control from state to privatized economic forces #expands (0.72) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1628
• Abuse of land stems from regarding it as owned commodity rather than community #expands (0.72) — Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac, 10