Settler secularism aims to control religion and limit the spirits to their designated domain. But they can never entirely be contained.

Tisa Wenger is Professor of American Religious History at Yale Divinity School. This interview is based on her new book, Spirits of Empire: How Settler Colonialism Made American Religion (Universit…

The Declaration of Independence depicted Native Americans as bloodthirsty savages, and from its founding the United States aimed to expand westward by seizin...