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		<title>Tibetan Village Stops Mining on Sacred Mountain</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the face of threats and violence from a Chinese mining company and local authorities, a small village's year-long effort to stop a gold mining project on the slopes of one of Tibet's holiest mountains finally paid off, perhaps with a little help from the mountain. ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sacredland.org/tibetan-village-stops-mining-on-sacred-mountain/</link>
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		<title>Seeking a Development Coordinator</title>
		<description><![CDATA[SLFP is seeking a Development Coordinator with at least four years of experience in nonprofit development work, excellent writing skills and collaborative grant proposal experience, familiarity with local and national foundations as well as individual giving, proficiency in Word and Excel — and a sense of humor!]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sacredland.org/were-hiring/</link>
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		<title>UNESCO Recognizes Indigenous Cultural Heritage in Colombia, Peru</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The annual Qoyllurit’i pilgrimage of Peru’s Q’eros and other indigenous groups and the traditional knowledge of the jaguar shamans of Yuruparí in Colombia are among the cultural heritage “elements” added to UNESCO’s intangible cultural heritage lists.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sacredland.org/unesco-recognizes-indigenous-cultural-heritage-in-columbia-peru/</link>
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		<title>Mining Threat to B.C. Sacred Lake Persists</title>
		<description><![CDATA[To the disappointment and frustration of the Tsilhqot’in Nation, the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency announced it would accept a repackaged proposal for the previously rejected Prosperity Gold-Copper Mine, which threatens the sacred lake Teztan Biny in British Columbia.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sacredland.org/mining-threat-to-b-c-sacred-lake-persists/</link>
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		<title>Support Grand Canyon Mining Ban</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Grand Canyon is close to receiving federal protection from an increase in uranium mining after the Bureau of Land Management on Oct. 26 issued a final environmental impact statement that supports a 20-year moratorium on new mining claims in a million-acre buffer zone around the canyon.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sacredland.org/support-grand-canyon-mining-ban/</link>
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		<title>Wixárika Bring Sacred Site Protection Fight to Mexican Capital</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A delegation of Wixárika people and their allies converged in Mexico City last week to urge the government to protect their sacred landscape, the Wirikuta Reserve in the northern state of San Luis Potosí, from imminent threats by mining and agroindustrial projects.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sacredland.org/wixarika-bring-sacred-site-protection-fight-to-mexican-capital/</link>
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		<title>Kickstarting the Finding Sacred Ground Mobile App — Together!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Join our campaign on Kickstarter to help us develop our new augmented-reality mobile app, Finding Sacred Ground! Augmented reality, a technology for mobile devices that superimposes images and audio over the user’s actual surroundings,]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sacredland.org/kickstarting-the-finding-sacred-ground-mobile-app-together/</link>
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		<title>Athabasca River Delta</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the vast northern reaches of Alberta, home to the Cree, Chipewyan Dene, Dunne-za and Métis peoples, one of the last remaining stretches of coniferous boreal forest has become a center of international attention.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sacredland.org/athabasca-river-delta/</link>
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		<title>Altai Pipeline Project Moves Forward</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Russian energy giant Gazprom announced this week that it had reached an agreement on a pricing formula to supply natural gas to China — a key sticking point delaying  finalization of a gas-export agreement that includes a proposed 1,700-mile pipeline that would cut across the sacred Ukok Plateau of Russia’s Altai Republic.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sacredland.org/altai-pipeline-project-moves-forward/</link>
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		<title>Satish Kumar on &#8220;What Is a Sacred Place?&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Satish Kumar brings a Hindu, Buddhist and Jain perspective to the definition of “sacred place.” For Satish, a UK-based writer, pilgrim and editor of Resurgence magazine, all of the Earth is the home of a divine, life-giving force so vast, mysterious and expansive that it is incomprehensible.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sacredland.org/new-film-clip-what-is-a-sacred-place/</link>
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		<title>Winona LaDuke on Redemption</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I first met Winona LaDuke in 1977, when we were working to expose the environmental injustice of uranium mining in Navajo land: radioactive tailings piled around homesteads, former miners dying of lung cancer, thousands of abandoned mines that small children played in.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sacredland.org/winona-laduke-on-reconciliation/</link>
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		<title>Oren Lyons on Our Relationship With the Earth</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Onondaga Chief Oren Lyons traveled to Arizona in June from his home in upstate New York to attend an elders' gathering in honor of our mutual friend, the late Hopi leader Thomas Banyacya.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sacredland.org/oren-lyons-on-our-relationship-with-the-earth/</link>
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		<title>U.S. Forest Service Seeks to Improve Sacred Site Protection — Comments Needed!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A draft U.S. Forest Service/USDA Office of Tribal Relations report exploring how National Forest lands containing Native American sacred sites could be better managed is now open for public comment.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sacredland.org/u-s-forest-service-seeks-to-improve-sacred-site-protection/</link>
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		<title>Winnemem Mapping Project</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In a workshop run by Eli Moore through a partnership with the Pacific Institute and the Data Center, the Winnemem Wintu learn here about GPS devices, setting waypoints and uploading the information to a computer so that they can record their history and protect their sacred sites.
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		<link>http://www.sacredland.org/winnemem-mapping-project/</link>
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		<title>Oren Lyons on the Wizard of Oz</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This video will give you a whole new angle on the classic tale, The Wizard of Oz. ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sacredland.org/oren-lyons-on-the-wizard-of-oz/</link>
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