Case Categories: Native American Religion

• Employment Division, Department of Human Resources of Oregon v. Smith (1990)

  Employment Division, Department of Human Resources of Oregon v. Smith (1990) greatly changed First Amendment religious free exercise law, abandoning the...

• Lyng v. Northwest Indian Cemetery Protective Association (1988)

  Lyng v. Northwest Indian Cemetery Protective Association (1988) said that building a road through sacred Native American sites did not violate the First...

• Quick Bear v. Leupp (1908)

  Quick Bear v. Leupp (1908) ruled that expenditures from Native American treaty trust funds for Catholic schools on reservations did not violate the First...