A Rare Victory for Sacred Sites
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld a Forestry Service ban on climbing at Cave Rock near Lake Tahoe, a site sacred to the Washoe. It remains to be seen if this ruling will be appealed and can withstand the tender mercies of well-known anti-Indians like Antonin Scalia (author of the notorious Lyng opinion) on the Supreme Court.
Labels: law, Native American, Religion
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