More than four decades after the passage of the American Indian Religious Freedom Act, its language still applies as Native and Indigenous communities continue to establish sovereignty and land rights.
In this episode, we’ll hear about the American Indian Religious Freedom Act of 1978 and its effect on tribes, discuss the connection between cartography and Indigeneity, and learn the history of an artist who documented the Potawatomi Trail of Death in the late 1830s.
Citizen Potawatomi Nation tribal member Omar Rana crafted an educational presentation on the Indian Child Welfare Act in fall 2020 that eventually became an official continuing education program for his fellow colleagues at the Legal Aid Society of New York City.