The Resolution copper mine in Arizona is a perfect example of this in action currently. The Left is losing fight after fight to keep the mine from opening. They've tried the environmental route and lost. They got the usual handful of Native Americans--
This tiny group with maybe a couple dozen Native Americans from several tribes in it:
--to claim the land the mine is on is "sacred" and would violate their religious rights to pick acorns from emory oak trees that grow across Arizona. Their claim is only the ones right around the mine can do. When that collapsed in court, they got three women from the tribe to make an new lawsuit on the same basis. The women claim that--and I'm not making this up--that they need the religious right to collect acorns in a 5-gallon Home Depot bucket or two to make a flour after sifting the acorns through a sieve made from some rabbit fence duct taped to an old bicycle rim. They say the acorns are better than the ones they collect near their trailer park...
So, a handful of Native Americans making insanely specious claims about things being "sacred" (as usual) backed by a handful of radical Leftist environmentalists are fighting, and losing, a battle to keep what will be the world's largest copper mine from opening. They're delaying the inevitable because they cling to dogma like a religion.