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.
February 4, 2010
The National Preservation Institute will be presenting a seminar entitled "Consultation and Protection of Native American Sacred Lands," to take place April 28-29 in Seattle, Wash. ...
January 26, 2010
Reversing an earlier U.S. district court decision permitting Barrick Gold Corp. to proceed with plans for a massive open-pit gold mine at Nevada's Mount Tenabo, a federal appeals court ordered a preliminary injunction against the mine. ...

 Photo of the Week

The Road Through the Baobeng Sacred Forest, Ghana. Photo by Alison Ormsby.