A community dedicated to protecting the Earth's sacred places through education and advocacy.
 

In 30 years of filmmaking, I've experienced how a documentary can touch hearts, open minds and inspire people to take action. While chronicling the ravages of coal and uranium mining in Hopi and Navajo country, native elders taught me that the environmental crisis is a spiritual crisis because the absence of a conscious connection to land and water inevitably leads ... Read More

Around the world there are thousands of places regarded as sacred. Some are still carefully guarded by indigenous people and are sites of secret ceremony and prayer. Some are national shrines known to millions. These holy sites emanate a magnetic force that draws people from far away, though the journey is frequently made only in imagination. View Index of Sacred Sites.

Activist Resources
Activists, students, teachers and travelers can gain a deeper understanding of sacred lands in the United States and around the world by following the many paths that begin here. You'll find links to organizations, headline news summaries, maps of threatened sacred sites with detailed reports on each site, a review of laws relating to sacred places, a comprehensive bibliography, our project archives, and a menu of educational tools created to accompany our, In the Light of Reverence.
March 10, 2010
Rising like an island in the center of California's Sacramento Valley, the Sutter Buttes figure prominently in the traditional creation and afterlife stories of the Maidu and Wintun peoples, whose ancestors once lived within view of this ... Read More
March 8, 2010
A day before his official Jan. 22 inauguration, Bolivian President Evo Morales held a symbolic swearing-in ceremony at the Kalasasaya Temple in Tiwanaku, the seat of an Andean empire that flourished for more than 400 years. ...

 Photo of the Week

Klabona, the Sacred Headwaters of the Stikine, Skeena, and Nass rivers, in British Columbia. Photo by Brian Huntington, courtesy of Skeena Watershed Conservation Coalition.