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The Struggle to Protect Native American Religious Freedom - Defend the Sacred: Native American Religious Freedom beyond the First Amendment By Michael D. McNally. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2020. Pp. 400. $99.95 (cloth); $26.95 (paper); $26.95 (digital). ISBN: 9780691190891.

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Defend the Sacred: Native American Religious Freedom beyond the First Amendment By Michael D. McNally. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2020. Pp. 400. $99.95 (cloth); $26.95 (paper); $26.95 (digital). ISBN: 9780691190891.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 November 2021

Jace Weaver
Jace Weaver*
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Franklin Professor of Religion and Native American Studies, University of Georgia
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Journal of Law and Religion , Volume 37 , Issue 1 , January 2022 , pp. 175 - 181
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University

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References

1 Reynolds v. U.S., 98 U.S. 145 (1879).

2 See, Laine, James, Meta-Religion: Religion and Power in World History (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2015)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

3 Charles Wilkinson, personal communication with author, July 15, 2011.

4 U.S. v. Sioux Nation, 448 U.S. 371 (1980).

5 Johnson v. M'Intosh, 21 U.S. 543 (1823).

6 George Johnson, “Indian Tribes’ Creationists Thwart Archaeologists,” New York Times, October 26, 1996, A1.

7 See, Weaver, Jace, Other Words: American Indian Literature, Law, and Culture (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2001), 229–36Google Scholar.

8 Exec. Order. No. 13007, 61 FR 26771 (May 24, 1996).

9 Bear Lodge Multiple Use Association v. Babbitt, 175 F.3d 814 (10th Cir. 1999).

10 Weaver, Other Words, 187.

11 See Walker, Deward E. Jr., “Protection of American Indian Sacred Geography,” in Vecsey, Christopher, ed., Handbook of American Indian Religious Freedom (New York: Crossroad, 1991), 100–15Google Scholar.

12 Weaver, Other Words, 186.

13 American Antiquities Act, 16 USC 431–33 (1906).

14 See, for example, Sequoyah v. Tennessee Valley Authority, 620 F. 2d (6th Cir.), cert. denied 449 U.S. 953 (1980).

15 Walker, Sacred Geography, 112.

16 Walker, Sacred Geography, 113, quoted in Weaver, Other Words, 186.

17 Van der Peet v. R [1996] 2 S.C.R. 507.

18 Jeffrey Simpson, “Aboriginal Rights Are Different Things to Judges and Politicians,” Toronto Globe and Mail, September 4, 1996, A20.

19 Rudy Platiel and Ross Howard, “Indians Don't Have Right to Sell Catch, Court Rules,” Toronto Globe and Mail, August 22, 1996, A1.

20 For a more thorough discussion comparing US and Canadian law, see Shrubsole, Nicholas, “Raising Indigenous Religious Freedom to a Higher Standard: Michael McNally's Defend the Sacred and the Canadian Legal and Legislative Landscapes,” Journal of Law and Religion 36, no. 3 (2021)Google Scholar (this issue).

21 Lyng v. Northwest Indian Cemetery Protective Association, 485 U.S. 439 (1988).

22 Standing Rock Sioux Tribe v. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, 471 F. Supp. 3d 71 (D.C. 2020) (ordering pipeline shut down and drained); Standing Rock Sioux Tribe v. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, No. 20-5197, 2020 WL 4548123 (D.C. Cir. Aug. 5, 2020) (staying the district court order). See also Jacey Fortin and Lisa Friedman, “Dakota Access Pipeline to Shutdown Pending Review, Federal Judge Rules,” New York Times, July 6, 2020, https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/06/us/dakota-access-pipeline.html.

23 Associated Press, “More Oil Shipped as Dakota Access Pipeline Expansion Starts, ABC News, August 6, 2021, https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/oil-shipped-dakota-access-pipeline-expansion-starts-79316104.