it is for us at least to see we're all now members of the oklahoma have a native american church. going to be at least in utah a landmark court ruling has been handed down stating that anyone in white guys can be members of the church and that any member's untitled has to be permitted to use quote any earth based her transport in their cars have it in their homes and use it in their own ceremonies on their property and any federal land previously had been asserted by the courts that it was illegal for the church to possess cannabis and then that only those of native american blood were allowed legal exemptions to use pay o.t. and ceremony but this is the longer the case because the tribe is federally recognized under constitutional law it's been deemed a restriction of religious liberty to restrict access to cannabis so bust out the pipes bombs blunts and pay o.t. but not the acid ecstasy or strangle as it was those are not earth based herbs and you have no right to put them in your body at least according to government oh and most cops don't recognize the law and most courts want

affected by poverty, alcoholism and domestic violence, she sought refuge in school, dance and native-american churchwas awarded internship with the little giant, house majority leader carl albert, also from oklahoma as many know. she won a national merit scholarship to college and crowned miss oklahoma in 1971. i have a spoiler alert here. for those of you who haven't finished reading the book, she didn't win the title of miss america that year. but her performance in the competition called very prominent attention to the lives of native people living the paradox being marginalized by history and politics as strangers in their homelands. this alienation of native people in american society has been due in large part due to the legal decisions rendered by our american courts and our next distinguished author, walter echo hawk is author of in the courts of conearlier. he analyzes ten cases that embody or expose the roots of injustice and describes the effects of nefarious legal doctrines upon the legal, political and, property and cultural rights of indigenous peoples. while the judiciary may have ren

native american. i didn't really admit it until i was in charge of lutheran world relief in my church years ago. and found out that there were people in my church that were not agreeable to giving any of the world relief items to native americans. but are also wonder what kind of education did you get in grade school? because my teachers were so terribly prejudiced against native americans and didn't know since i was blond and blue-eyed and the rest of my siblings were dark hair and dark i'd like my mother, they didn't know i was native american and we're very outspoken and said it was good those savages were gotten rid of because they were so savage and so stupid. it was too bad we didn't have really smart savages like they did in south america. i wondered if you ever heard of any of that and have one more question. i thought of doing my grandfather's story which would be called probably cherokee charlie, and iowa farmer, telling the story of how prejudiced people were at the time that he followed my irish grandmother to i'll up from oklahoma territory. and that he had changed his name, his age

american immigrants are predominantly christian. the main demographic, the impact is really putting more members into the roman catholic church, unlike the native born, two-one protestant coming into this country, they are now 2-1 catholic. they are overwhelmingly catholic as opposed to protestant. but the rest of the immigrants coming in, a large percentage of them, look at the percentage of muslim-americans, the percentage of hindus, buddhists. the latest wave of migration is producing a much greater diversity, not only christian and jewish, another story we could talk about, the abraham ic inclusion of muslims, it is now what is and hindus and so forth. there is a continuing challenge, and it seems to me is how the government and we as a society respond to diversity and choose to accommodate it that will determine precisely where these religious identities serve to shore up the broader civic identity. >> i think you're contrast of our panel and the first panel is interesting. could it be that immigrants and the new comers, while the white people in kansas or l.a., for example, are going to fragment into different cultures? you're going to ha

churches worked hierarchal >> i am a teacher. i did not hear anything about education. some of us did not come here as immigrants. my mother's native american and my father is black. some of our voices are being left out, but in social media there is a way to input a little bit. the problem is everyone does not have broad band. i did not hear any discussion about the equity of access to the conversations that are going on other than in the press. what do you think? how can we change education for teachers, people working with kids? how can we use social media to change? what about the rest of you? >> jim, do you have any ideas? michael did allude to the fact that we cannot presuppose that we are in a society where everyone has the right of access to make the same type of forces, when we were talking about gated communities, i thought was a voluble point. do you have any ideas? >> political literacy is very uneven across individuals and communities. of course, you can predict in these poor immigrants and minority communities. i think that it is probably helpful to think of other institutions aside from just schools, however, as civic educato

american immigrants are predominantly christian. the main demographic impact they're having is really putting more members into the roman catholic church, unlike the native born who are two to one, protestant imgrants coming into this country are two to one catholic. they are overwhelming christian like in europe, but overwhelming cat like opposed to protestant, but the rest of the immigrants coming in, a large percent of them, muslim-americans who are foreign born is two-thirds, the percentage of hindus is 80% and buddhas. the latest wave of immigration is a greater wave of diversity pushing us not just to the christian and jewish -- that's another story we could talk about -- even to the abrahamic inclusion of muslims, still within the broad abrahamic tradition, it's now buddhists and hindus and so forth. it's a continuing challenge, and, again, it just seems to me it's how the government and we, as a society, respond to that diversity and choose to accommodate it that will determine precisely whether these, you know, religious identities also serve to shore up the broader civic io dent diversity. >> diversity, just a bumper sticker? >> yeah, i think t

american immigrants are predominantly christian. the main demographic in bread -- impact they're having is putting more members into the roman catholic church. unlike the native born who are 2 to 1, protestants coming into this country are 2 to 1 -- unlike the native born who are 2 to one protestant, those coming into this country are 2 to 1 catholic. a large percentage of them look at the percentage of foreign- born muslim and hindus and buddhists. the latest wave of migration is producing much greater diversity pushing on not only through the christian and jewish -- that is another story we could talk about. but it is now buddhist and hindu and so forth. i think there is a continuing challenge, and again, it seems to me how the government and we, as a society respond to the diversity and choose to accommodate its that will determine whether these will serve to shore up the broader tendency toward diversity. >> i think these comments compared to the first panel are very interesting. could it be that these immigrants are willing to make for a cohesive country where the white people in kansas and the white people in l.a., fourth of all, would fragment into two