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NNABA Resolution 2013-3

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NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that the National Native American Bar Association calls upon the United States, all fifty American states and the District of Columbia – including federal and state executive, agency, legislative, corrections and judicial officials and employees – to:

(a) Take all reasonable and any least restrictive steps to commend, support and facilitate incarcerated American Indigenous Peoples’ freedom to believe, express and exercise traditional indigenous religion,

(b) Denounce or cease any unduly burdensome or patently illegal or illegitimate federal, state or local government restriction upon incarcerated American Indigenous Peoples’ freedom to believe, express and exercise traditional indigenous religion, and

(c) Explore how federal, state and American indigenous governments can jointly develop and advance shared penological goals in regard to incarcerated American Indigenous Peoples.

NOW THEREFORE BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the National Native American Bar Association calls upon the American Bar Association, Federal Bar Association and state and local bar associations, the National Congress of American Indians, regional inter-tribal associations and individual American indigenous governments, the United States Attorney General and Department of Justice, the American Correctional Association and American Association of State Correctional Administrators, and the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, to also formally call upon the United States, all fifty American states and the District of Columbia, to:

(a) Take all reasonable and any least restrictive steps to commend, support and facilitate incarcerated American Indigenous Peoples’ freedom to believe, express and exercise traditional indigenous religion,

(b) Denounce or cease any unduly burdensome or patently illegal or illegitimate federal, state or local government restriction upon incarcerated American Indigenous Peoples’ freedom to believe, express and exercise traditional indigenous religion, and

(c) Explore how federal, state and American indigenous governments can jointly develop and advance shared penological goals in regard to incarcerated American Indigenous Peoples.