[3] Snake worked towards the establishment of the American Indian Religious Freedom Act, which passed in 1994, after his death.
[6] Reuben Alvis Snake Jr., was born on January 12, 1937, on the Winnebago Indian Reservation in Thurston County, Nebraska.
[7] His parents, Reuben Harold and Virginia Greyhair Snake, divorced, and he experienced many other instabilities during his childhood.
[3] While working for the National Congress of American Indians, Snake made buttons that read, "your humble servant".
[2][7] His archive is located in the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C.[4] Michael Pollan wrote the book How to Change Your Mind (2018), which became a Netflix docuseries in 2022 of the same name and featured a segment on Native American use of peyote (mescaline) and mentions Snake's legal battle (season 1, episode 4).