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Even though it is a controlled substance under federal law, an exemption afforded by a 1994 amendment to the American Indian Religious Freedom Act made it legal for Native Americans to use, possess ...

Introduction / Lawrence Sullivan -- Renewal as discourse and discourse as renewal in Native northwestern California / Thomas Buckley -- Traditional ways and contemporary vitality: Absaroke/Crow / John ...

The Native American Church is considered the most widespread religious movement among the Indigenous people of North America. It holds sacred the peyote cactus, which grows naturally only in some ...

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Three Native American inmates at the ACI have filed a lawsuit alleging their religious practices are being denied. The ACLU is representing the inmates, claiming the ACI lacks policies accommodating ...