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Of Courts, Clauses And Native American Culture: Lyng V. Northwest Indian Cemetery Protective Association, Bill Peters
Of Courts, Clauses And Native American Culture: Lyng V. Northwest Indian Cemetery Protective Association, Bill Peters
Northern Illinois University Law Review
This Casenote discusses the Supreme Court opinion in Lyng v. Northwest Indian Cemetery Protective Association, which approved road construction across land held sacred by various North American Indian tribes. The Note examines the free exercise clause of the first amendment under which the Indians challenged the Forest Service project, and that clause's development through constitutional case law as a guarantee of fundamental religious rights. This Note suggests that the Court's incremental departure from strict scrutiny analysis in free exercise controversies has, at least for Native Americans, culminated with the decision in Lyng.