Native American Religion Cases
Employment Division, Department of Human Resources of Oregon v. Smith
(1990) greatly changed First Amendment religious free exercise law,
abandoning the compelling interest test.
Lyng v. Northwest Indian Cemetery Protective Association (1988) said that
building a road through sacred Native American sites did not violate the
First Amendment.
Quick Bear v. Leupp (1908) ruled that expenditures from Native American
treaty trust funds for Catholic schools on reservations did not violate the
First Amendment.
