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The Theodoratus Report was a comprehensive study prompted by the American Indian Religious Freedom Act during Lyng v. Northwest Indian Cemetery Protective Ass'n (1988) and conducted by the United States Forest Service in order to evaluate policies and procedures to protect Native American religious cultural rights and practices. [16]
Often, government projects required acquisition of sacred grounds necessary for Native American rituals. [8] Ritual peyote use infringed on the federal war on drugs. And the American Indian Religious Freedom Act, which Congress had passed to protect tribal religious freedoms, lacked an enforcement mechanism. These interests collided in Lyng v.
The American Indian Religious Freedom Act is a United States federal law and a joint resolution of Congress that provides protection for tribal culture and traditional religious rights such as access to sacred sites, freedom to worship through traditional ceremony, and use and possession of sacred objects for Native Americans, Inuit, Aleut, and ...
Freedom of religion is something that we here in America treasure. What’s happening on this land in West Central Wyoming is more than restoring the presence of American bison, or buffalo ...
The Native American novelist N. Scott Momaday gives a highly accurate portrayal of the peyote service in his book House Made of Dawn. Reuben Snake was a Ho-Chunk roadman and worked towards the establishment of the American Indian Religious Freedom Act, which passed after his death in 1994 in order to legalize the use of ceremonial peyote. [30] [31]
The Act protected the High Country, by adding it to the Siskiyou Wilderness Area. Suzan Shown Harjo, a Cheyenne-Muskogee writer and activist who influenced the drafting of the American Indian Religious Freedom Act (AIRFA) of 1978, called Lyng v. Northwest Indian Cemetery Protective Association a "stunning defeat" for the Native American cause. [11]
With approval of the citizenship act, many Native Americans feared the expansion of U.S. citizenship might undermine the special status of trust land that allows tribes to make their own decisions ...
The Association has also advocated for the creation and passage of several other important repatriation acts, including the National Museum of the American Indian Act (NMAI Act), the American Indian Religious Freedom Act (AIRFA), the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA), PROTECT Patrimony Resolution, and the Safeguard Tribal Objects of ...