American law has had great difficulty using its European categories of religion and rights to take account of Native notions of land as sacred. Whether the law in question is the First Amendment's Free Exercise of Religion Clause, property law, or law related to sacred sites, there has been tension between the law and Native religion. Four speakers discuss the law's difficulties in accommodating Native Americans' spirituality of land in this 2003 Spirit & Place Festival event.
Speakers included Native Americans and professors of law and criminal justice:
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- William C. Bradford
- Brian Buchanan
- Mary Mitchell
- Steve Russel
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- Darren Allumier