Directory of Religious Exploitation and Defense Resources

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Sites dealing with the exploitation of native religions or spiritual practices: fake "shamans," people selling Indian religious artifacts, protection of burial grounds, etc.

Subcategories

• Repatriation
• Wannabes

Resources in This Category

• Pseudo Native American Tarot Decks

  http://www.lelandra.com/comptarot/tarotindian.htm
  Article by a tarotist about the problems inherent in inauthentic American-Indian themed tarot cards. With pictures.

• Selling American Indian Spirituality: Cheating Us, Cheating Them

  http://www.yvwiiusdinvnohii.net/News2000/0800/WC000801Commentary.htm
  Essay on the recent commercialism of American Indian spiritual tradition, by Pte Cante Winyan.

• United States Returns Sacred Land to Indians

  http://www.justice.gov/archive/opa/pr/1996/January96/013.txt
  1996 report about how a marijuana grower's land was seized and then eventually returned to the Karuk.

• War Against Exploiters of Lakota Spirituality

  http://puffin.creighton.edu/lakota/war.html
  Declaration from tribal elders, reprinted from an undated handbill.

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