The Road To Perdition

The Road To Perdition

This newspaper article describes the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in the Lyng v Northwest Indian Cemetery Protection Association case.

Los Angeles Times

U.C. Davis Special Collections

San Francisco Banner Daily Journal

04/26/1988

Humboldt State Special Collections

English

1 Page

D-334 David Risling Papers
Folder 7281 Box 34

Open Forum

The court was very much aware that around the country dozens of Indian tribes have objected, on religious grounds to projects that the government has proposed on federal land.
If the majority had sided with the California tribes, such a decision would have limited the government's ability to manage the vast expanses or federal property. As O'Connor acknowledged putting the Indians' beliefs first ''could easily require (their) de facto beneficial ownership of some rather spacious tracts of public property'."

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