Tribes ask US Supreme Court to hear case over sacred land in Oregon
Activists demonstrate during a Slockish v. US Department of Transportation hearing. (Photo courtesy of the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty)
Members of two Native American tribes are calling on the federal government to restore features of a sacred site that was bulldozed 14 years ago as part of a highway widening project near Mount Hood, Oregon.
They’re taking their fight to the US Supreme Court after their case was dismissed by two lower courts.
Wilbur Slockish, the hereditary chief of the Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation, and Carol Logan, a spiritual practitioner and elder of the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde, petitioned the high court on October 3 to hear their case. The nonprofits Cascade Geographic Society and Mount Hood Sacred Lands Preservation Alliance are the two other petitioners.
