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Article: RELIGIOUS FREEDOM AN AMERICAN ILLUSION FOR NATIVES
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- The Circle
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- September 30, 1994
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Tia Oros
Circle, The
09-30-1994
RELIGIOUS FREEDOM AN AMERICAN ILLUSION FOR NATIVES.
Most non-Native Americans idyllically revere the United States as a nation enshrined in religious freedom, with a government that abides by notions of acceptance and non-persecution. However, in the reality of daily life for the "First Americans," the Indigenous peoples of Turtle Island (Western Hemisphere), the fundamental right to freely exercise traditional, earth-based religions has been consistently undermined since this nation's founding over two hundred years ago. Although this right is presumed by much of non-Native America, which abides by Western/European religious ethics, in truth, religious ...