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The Act requires policies of all governmental agencies to eliminate interference with the free exercise of Native American religions, based upon the First Amendment to the United States Constitution, and to accommodate access to, and use of, Native American religious sites to the extent that the use is practicable and is consistent with an ...
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 ...
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 ...
Lucero v. United States was a Supreme Court of the United States decision that ruled the Pueblo Tribe of New Mexico wasn't legally protected under the Nonintercourse Acts. . The Nonintercourse Act established federally recognized Indian reservations in the United Sta
The Oklahoma Legislature needs to meaningfully work on passing an amendment to ensure that if Native American students have their religious and cultural rights violated, they have a path to justice.
Indigenous rights are those rights that exist in recognition of the specific condition of indigenous peoples.This includes not only the most basic human rights of physical survival and integrity, but also the rights over their land (including native title), language, religion, and other elements of cultural heritage that are a part of their existence and identity as a people.
Indigenous religions or native religion is a category used in the study of religion to demarcate the religious belief systems of communities described as being "indigenous". This category is often juxtaposed against others such as the " world religions " and " new religious movements ".
The clinic has also backed religious liberty in cases not driven by Catholics, including another case now pending at the Supreme Court over a claim that Native American religious rights would be ...