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Article: Appeals court upholds Native American Medicine Wheel.(Around The States)
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- Church & State
- Article date:
- November 1, 2004
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A federal appeals court ruled in September that a logging company did not have grounds to challenge government regulations preserving for religious purposes a site in Bighorn National Forest that is sacred to Native Americans.
A three-judge panel of the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in Wyoming Sawmills v. United States Forest Service that the logging company failed to show how its First Amendment rights had been subverted by the Forest Service's management of Medicine Wheel, which is a stone circle sacred to several Native American tribes located on Medicine Mountain in the national forest in north central Wyoming.
The Medicine Wheel was made ...