What Was Published Without Consent

Federal protections followed decades later — 1978, then 1990 — and a formal 1993 declaration named the practice outright. A library built from published esoterica owes its readers the same honesty about which of its own sources were taken without consent.

The American Indian Religious Freedom Act (1978); NAGPRA (1990); the 1993 Lakota Declaration of War Against Exploiters of Lakota Spirituality

Sacred material from Zuni, Ho-Chunk and Navajo traditions published by outside researchers against the wishes of the communities it came from.

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