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Religion, Law, and the Land: Native Americans and the Judicial Interpretation of Sacred Land
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.
| Author(s) | By Brian E. Brown. |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing Plc |
| Format | Hardback |
| Pages | 208 |
| Published in | United States |
| Published | 30 Nov 1999 |
| Availability | Not yet available |
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.
Introduction Sequoyah v. Tennessee Valley Authority: The Tellico Dam and the Submersion of Cherokee Sacred Homeland Badoni v. Higginson: Navajo Religion, National Monuments and the Colorado River Wilson v. Block: Skiing the Slopes of a Sacred Mountain
BRIAN EDWARD BROWN is Chairman and Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Iona College in New Rochelle, New York./e He teaches classes in the Buddhist, Chinese, and Native American traditions ligious cosmology d the Constitutional law o
