Leaders of the Native American Church Pressure Biden Administration for Protections of Peyote Habitat. Leaders of the country’s largest intertribal religious organization met this week with federal officials and urged them to uphold Native rights to use peyote in religious ceremonies. Leaders of the Native American Church of North America (NACNA) convened at the Department of the Interior to ask the federal government to uphold its legal responsibilities in enforcing the American Indian Religious Freedom Act (AIRFA) of 1978. Signed into law by President Jimmy Carter, AIRFA protects the rights of Native Americans to exercise their traditional religions and ensures access to sacred sites and the use and possession of sacred objects.
Omaha Children’s Museum’s exhibit called A Generation of Hope: Indigenous Peoples of the Heartland, is now open. This original and interactive experience includes an indoor climbing tree and guests may view a tipi, hand painted by members of the Oglala Lakota tribe. The exhibit is a collaborative effort between Omaha Children’s Museum and the local Indigenous community. The exhibit celebrates the people who have called this region home for thousands of years.
Those are your headlines at this hour, I’m Colette Keith in the KIPI News center.
