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		<title>Read Our Latest Sacred Site Report, California&#8217;s Sutter Buttes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Rising like an island in the center of California&#8217;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 small mountain range. In the 19th century, European settlement and the imposition of private property rights severed the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sacredland.org/sacred-site-report-mar10/</link>
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		<title>Bolivian President Kicks Off Second Term With Ceremony at Indigenous Sacred Site</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sacredland.org/bolivian-president-kicks-off-second-term-with-ceremony-at-indigenous-sacred-site/</link>
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		<title>Sutter Buttes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Sutter Buttes of Northern California&#8217;s Sacramento Valley are where life began and where life ends. Playing a role in the traditional creation and afterlife stories of the Maidu and Wintun peoples, this small mountain range was a place of ritual for their ancestors, who once lived within view of the Buttes. In the 19th [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sacredland.org/sutter-buttes/</link>
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		<title>Uranium Mining Resumes at Grand Canyon</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After a nearly 20-year hiatus, uranium mining has resumed on public lands surrounding the Grand Canyon. In late December, Denison Mines Corp. began extracting high-grade uranium ore from its Arizona 1 mine, located about 10 miles from the boundary for Grand Canyon National Park.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sacredland.org/uranium-mining-resumes-at-grand-canyon/</link>
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		<title>U.N. Issues First-Ever &#8220;State of the World&#8217;s Indigenous Peoples&#8221; Report</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In January, the U.N. released its first-ever report on the "State of the World's Indigenous Peoples," which presents a global view of the current situation of indigenous peoples, examining poverty and well-being, culture, education, health, human rights, environment and emerging issues.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sacredland.org/state-of-the-worlds-indigenous-people/</link>
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		<title>Join Campaign to Save Brazil&#8217;s Xingu River</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A controversial and long-delayed hydroelectric dam project on Brazil's Xingu River received the green light on Feb. 1 when the Brazilian Environment Ministry issued an environmental license for the dam's construction.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sacredland.org/campaign-to-save-brazils-xingu-river/</link>
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		<title>April Seminar to Focus on Protection of Native American Sacred Lands</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sacredland.org/april-seminar-native-american-sacred-lands/</link>
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		<title>Court Blocks Mount Tenabo Gold Mine</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sacredland.org/court-blocks-mount-tenabo-gold-mine/</link>
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		<title>Uluru to Remain Open to Climbers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Backing away from a definitive move to ban climbing Australia's iconic Uluru, Northern Territory Environment Minister Peter Garret on Jan. 8 approved a management plan that instead would allow for an eventual ban once certain conditions were met.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sacredland.org/uluru-to-remain-open-to-climbers/</link>
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		<title>New Sacred Site Reports Feature Borneo, China and Mongolia</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Monks in China and Mongolia are taking a spritual approach in confronting modern threats to Buddhist and Daoist sacred mountains, while in Malaysian Borneo, one of the world's last nomadic tribes fights to save its traditional rainforest lands from logging, hydropower and oil palm plantations.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sacredland.org/sacred-site-reports-jan10/</link>
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		<title>Nantucket Wind Farm Tests Administration&#8217;s Commitment to Native Americans</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In a first test of the Obama administration's promise to honor the needs of Native Americans in policy- and decision-making, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar met with local tribes to determine whether to approve a massive offshore wind-farm project in Massachusett's Nantucket Sound.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sacredland.org/nantucket-wind-farm-tests-administrations-commitment-to-native-americans/</link>
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		<title>In the Light of Reverence at the Wild and Scenic Film Festival</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sacred Land Film Project director Toby McLeod and writer Jessica Abbe will be in attendance at the Wild and Scenic Film Festival&#8217;s screening of In the Light of Reverence this weekend. If you are in the neighborhood and can join them please do stop by. The film will screen this Saturday, Jan.  16, at 1:30 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sacredland.org/in-the-light-of-reverence-at-the-wild-and-scenic-film-festival/</link>
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		<title>Peabody&#8217;s Black Mesa Permit Revoked</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A Department of Interior administrative law judge has overturned Peabody Coal Co.’s life-of-mine permit for operations at Black Mesa on Navajo-Hopi land in Arizona. The controversial permit was granted by the Department of Interior’s Office of Surface Mining in the final days of the Bush administration and was appealed by native activists and environmental organizations. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sacredland.org/peabodys-black-mesa-permit-revoked/</link>
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		<title>Nine Sacred Mountains</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In Chinese, the term for pilgrimage, ch&#8217; ao-shan chin-hsiang, is literally translated as &#8220;journeying to a mountain and offering incense.&#8221; Throughout China’s history, Buddhist and Daoist pilgrims have gone to mountains seeking spiritual sustenance and solace; there are five sacred mountains that are preeminent for Daoists and four sacred mountains that are paramount to Buddhists. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sacredland.org/nine-sacred-mountains/</link>
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		<title>Bogd Khan Uul</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Crowned by one of the four holy peaks surrounding the Mongolian capital Ulaanbaatar, Bogd Khan Uul Strictly Protected Area is Mongolia&#8217;s — and perhaps the world&#8217;s — oldest officially and continuously protected site. Officially declared a sacred mountain reserve in 1778, evidence of its protected status dates back to the 13th century. During the decades-long [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sacredland.org/bogd-khan-uul/</link>
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