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The Smith decision prompted the development of the Native American Religious Freedom Project which involved and concerned almost every Native American tribe in the country. In 1993, the Religious Freedom Restoration Act was passed. By 1994, the American Indian Religious Freedom Act Amendments were passed as Public Law 103–344.
The term Navajo Wars covers at least three distinct periods of conflict in the American West: the Navajo against the Spanish (late 16th century through 1821); the Navajo against the Mexican government (1821 through 1848); and the Navajo (Diné) against the United States (after the 1847–48 Mexican–American War). These conflicts ranged from ...
The American Indian Religious Freedom Act of 1978, [21] also called the American Indian Religious Freedom Act (AIRFA), was passed to provide legal protection for the Church's use of the plant. [ 10 ] In 1970, President Richard Nixon signed the Controlled Substances Act (CSA), which prohibited the possession of psychedelics such as peyote in the ...
The Apache Wars were sparked when American troops erroneously accused Apache leader Cochise and his tribe of kidnapping a young boy during a raid. Cochise professed truthfully that his tribe had not kidnapped the boy and offered to try and find him for the Americans, but the commander refused to believe him and instead took Cochise and his ...
The 1863 deportation of the Navajos by the U.S. government occurred when 9,000 Navajos were forcibly relocated to an internment camp in Bosque Redondo, [23] where, under armed guards, up to 3,500 Navajo and Mescalero Apache men, women, and children died from starvation and disease over the next 5 years. [23]
Federal judges rejected an Apache religious challenge to the construction of the massive Resolution Copper mine on sacred land at Oak Flat in Arizona.
Apache tribe members say Arizona land slated to be destroyed for a copper mine is sacred. Their legal battle is now a major religious liberty test.
Protest at Glen Cove sacred burial site. The Recognition of Native American sacred sites in the United States could be described as "specific, discrete, narrowly delineated location on Federal land that is identified by an Indian tribe, or Indian individual determined to be an appropriately authoritative representative of an Indian religion, as sacred by virtue of its established religious ...