The Sacred Land Film Project helped organize a forum on sacred land protection at the Department of the Interior headquarters as part of a week-long conference (from March 19-22) convened to form a national Sacred Lands Protection Coalition. The DOI forum was intended to draw the attention of legislators and federal land managers toward improving protection of sacred places. Vine Deloria spoke after the film screening at DOI and urged coalition members not to get bogged down creating a new organization: “Identify the places that are threatened and get to work protecting them,” he counseled. The following day we showed In the Light of Reverence at the Pentagon. A meeting with the staff of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs yielded a commitment to hold five oversight hearings on whether existing federal laws regarding sacred sites are being enforced. The first Senate hearing will be held June 4.