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Spiritual Commodification and Misappropriation - Essay on Native American beliefs about religious exploitation, with quotes from many prominent American Indians.
Plastic Shaman New Age Frauds - Bulletin from an American Indian activist site detailing the warning signs of a fake/exploitative Native American 'religion'.
War Against Exploiters of Lakota Spirituality - Declaration from tribal elders, reprinted from an undated handbill.
Selling American Indian Spirituality: Cheating Us, Cheating Them - Essay on the recent commercialism of American Indian spiritual tradition, by Pte Cante Winyan.
Pseudo Native American Tarot Decks - Article by a tarotist about the problems inherent in inauthentic American-Indian themed tarot cards. With pictures.
Indian Burial Grounds Action Group - Dedicated to issues relevant to Indian Burial Grounds and their protection.
New Age (and Other) Ripoff Sites - Listing of sites that are clearly using Native American imagery, spiritual symbols and "noble savage" stereotypes for profit
United States Returns Sacred Land to Indians - 1996 report about how a marijuana grower's land was seized and then eventually returned to the Karuk.
Fake Medicine Men - Articles and resources about the "invisible crime" of spiritual abuse.
Planet Twinkie's Home Page - This is a fun site for Native Americans to expose those who sell their spirituality for profit.

Wikipedia Articles

Royal Order of Saint George for the Defense of the Immaculate Conception - The Royal Military Order of Saint George for the Defense of the Faith and the Immaculate Conception was founded by Maximilian II Emanuel, Elector of Bavaria in 1726 to provide for a means of honouring the nobility and recognizing distinguished civil military service. Its status as a Catholic Order was confirmed in a Papal Bull of 15 March, 1728 specifically comparing the Order with the Teutonic Order, which had likewise been transformed from a Crusading Order to an exclusive chivalric religious institution for the Nobility.
American Indian Defense Association - The American Indian Defense Association (AIDA) was an organization founded in 1923 by social worker John Collier, that fought to protect religious freedom and tribal property for Native Americans in the United States. - Article about The Merriam Report URL last accessed 2006-11-18 In the 1920s Antonio Luhan a member of the Taos Pueblo showed John Collier the poor living conditions in American Indian communities.
Eutherian fetoembryonic defense system (eu-FEDS) hypothesis - The Eutherian Fetoembryonic Defense System (eu-FEDS) is a hypothetical model describing a method by which immune systems are capable of recognizing additional states of relatedness like "own species" such as is observed in maternal tolerance of a related fetus. The model includes descriptions of the proposed signaling mechanism and several proposed examples of exploitation of this signaling in disease states.
American Freedom Coalition - The American Freedom Coalition (AFC) is a group which seeks to unite conservatives on the state level to work toward common goals. According to the International Relations Center]'s informational website Rightweb: "Among the values promoted by the AFC are a strong defense, opposition to abortion and pornography, anticommunism, religious freedom but with an emphasis on including "moral and religious standards" in government and other social institutions, the right to own property, and minimal governmental interference in the marketplace.
Hesder - Hesder (in Hebrew: "arrangement"; or Yeshivat Hesder ישיבת הסדר) is an Israeli yeshiva program which combines advanced Talmudic studies with military service in the Israel Defense Forces. These yeshivot allow religious Jews to fulfill the ideal of full and active participation in the defense of the Israeli people, while still engaging in intense Torah study during their formative years.