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  2. Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act

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    The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act is a law that establishes the ownership of cultural items excavated or discovered on federal or tribal land after November 16, 1990. The act also applies to land transferred by the federal government to the states under the Water Resources Department Act. [ 6 ]

  3. American Indian Religious Freedom Act - Wikipedia

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    The law was enacted to return basic civil liberties to American Indians, Eskimos, Aleuts, and Native Hawaiians, and to allow them to practice, protect and preserve their inherent right of freedom to believe, express, and exercise their traditional religious rites, spiritual and cultural practices. [2]

  4. Outline of United States federal Indian law and policy

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    Lucy Covington , activist for Native American emancipation. [7] Mary Dann and Carrie Dann (Western Shoshone) were spiritual leaders, ranchers, and cultural, spiritual rights and land rights activists. Joe DeLaCruz , Native American leader in Washington, U.S., president for 22 years of the Quinault Tribe of the Quinault Reservation.

  5. Native American civil rights - Wikipedia

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    Native American civil rights are the civil rights of Native Americans in the United States.Native Americans are citizens of their respective Native nations as well as of the United States, and those nations are characterized under United States law as "domestic dependent nations", a special relationship that creates a tension between rights retained via tribal sovereignty and rights that ...

  6. Centuries after Native American remains were dug up, a new ...

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    It also complements a federal law adopted a year later, the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act. It requires the return of human remains and funerary, sacred and cultural ...

  7. Supreme Court preserves law that aims to keep Native American ...

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    The Supreme Court on Thursday preserved the system that gives preference to Native American families in foster care and adoption proceedings of Native children, rejecting a broad attack from some ...

  8. List of United States Supreme Court cases involving Indian tribes

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    This is a list of U.S. Supreme Court cases involving Native American Tribes.Included in the list are Supreme Court cases that have a major component that deals with the relationship between tribes, between a governmental entity and tribes, tribal sovereignty, tribal rights (including property, hunting, fishing, religion, etc.) and actions involving members of tribes.

  9. The Supreme Court just dealt a big blow to tribal ... - AOL

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    That ruling, in 2020, found that the state did not have the authority to prosecute violent crimes by or against Native Americans that happened on those tribes’ lands, because they fell under the ...