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laws, and many value conflicts ultimately are worked out through legal arguments." The producers contrasted the treatment of Native
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assessed the AIRFA court battles and concluded that the non-Native public had virtually no understanding of what such sacred places meant to Indian communities, why they were important, and how their protection was fundamental to the free exercise of their religions. They chose to develop means of
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