Native American Rights | The Supreme Court Threatens Native Americans’ Religious Use of Peyote

The Indian plays much the same role in our American society that the Jews played in Germany. Like the miner’s canary, the Indian marks the shift from fresh air to poison gas in our political atmosphere; and our treatment of Indians, even more than our treatment of other minorities, marks the rise and fall of our democratic faith. —Felix Cohen, the “Father of Federal Indian Law”

[The] Supreme Court [has] created a crisis in religious liberty for Native Americans. [It] held that the First Amendment does not protect tribal religious...

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