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

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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.

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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.
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June 19, 2009
Indigenous communities in the Peruvian Amazon are claiming victory after the nation's Congress on June 18 repealed a pair of decrees that had sparked months of region-wide protests in defense of indigenous land rights. The government's about-face — including President Alan García's admission on national television that he had committed "a series of errors" — followed a wave ... Read More
June 18, 2009
The National Science Foundation released a supplemental draft environmental impact statement in May for the proposed Advanced Technology Solar Telescope atop Haleakala Volcano in Hawaii. Comments on the SDEIS must be received or postmarked by June 22, 2009. Located on the southeastern reach of Maui, Haleakala is managed as a national park, and the summit, with an altitude of 10,023 ... Read More

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Makko Wareo, Father of Milo Mountains, with his daughter. Photo by Christopher McLeod.