Forty years ago, the American Indian Religious Freedom Act finally finally extended that right to the country’s Native citizens. Here Native Americans who observe traditional ways talk about ...

On Dec. 4, the two-year struggle by the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe to protect their sacred land and water ended – at least for now – when the Obama administration denied the easement ...

adding that it took decades of lobbying until an amendment to the American Indian Religious Freedom Act in 1994 permitted members of federally recognized Native American tribes to use peyote for ...

One of President Biden’s final acts as US president was to grant clemency to American Indian Movement (AIM) activist Leonard ...

Peyote is a controlled substance under federal law. But a 1994 amendment to the American Indian Religious Freedom Act made it legal for Native Americans to use, possess, and transport peyote for ...