American Indians want religious freedom law. (Column)

National Catholic Reporter | January 21, 1994| | Copyright

In Reno, Nev., last month, more than 1,500 representatives of about 300 tribal governments were brought together by the National Congress of American Indians. A startling as well as politically revealing moment occurred when a unanimous resolution was passed stating the group's top legislative priority.

For some of America's sickest, poorest and most dispossessed people, it wasn't health-care reform, not a call for more food assistance or job-training programs, nor demands for land-rights fairness. The priority was spiritual: passage of federal legislation to ...

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