Professor Arnold Pillings Statement On Native American Religious Rights and On Purposed Road Construction and Logging In The Six Rivers National Forest Eight Mile- Blue Creek Management Units.

Professor Arnold Pillings Statement On Native American Religious Rights and On Purposed Road Construction and Logging In The Six Rivers National Forest Eight Mile- Blue Creek Management Units.

This is a response written to give a more accurate understanding of the Forest Service's proposal to construct the GO Road. The author of the letter did scholarly field work pertaining to Yurok Medicine concepts in 1949 and 1967, This letter is written to give a clear understanding of what and why there is the protection of Religious Freedom. As well as, a recommendation as to why and how the Blue Creek Area should be protected under the U.S. Constitution.

Professor Arnold Phillings
Wayne State University, Detroit.

Humboldt State Special Collections

03/10/1975

21.59cm x 27.94cm

English

7 Pages

Humboldt County Pamphlet Collection

It is the author's contention that the U.S. government has the obvious obligation under the constitution to protect Native American religion, places, practices, paraphernalia, with the same vigor that the federal government protects the religious freedom and rights of other non-Christian American religious minority groups.

1. Who are the believers?
2. What is the nature of the belief?
3. What does the religious practice of believers suggest as constitutionally-protected environmental features?
4. What bearing do these constitutional matters have on the Six Rivers National Forest Eight Mile - Blue Creek Management Project?
5. What are the minimal areas of the Six Rivers National Forest which should be considered protected by constitutional guarantees?
6. What are the broader considerations to be derived from the Eight Mile Blue Creek Proposal?

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