Religion, Law, and the Land: Native Americans and the Judicial Interpretation of Sacred Land

by Brian Edward Brown

Examining a series of court decisions made during the 1980s regarding the legal claims of several Native American tribes who attempted to protect ancestrally revered lands from development schemes by the federal government, this book looks at important questions raised about the religious status of land. The tribes used the First Amendment right of free exercise of religion as the basis of their claim, since governmental action threatened to alter...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313309728
• ISBN13: 9780313309724
• Release Date: November 1999
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.6"