Sacred Lands and Graves

An Annotated Bibliography of Southwestern and Native American Religious Shrines, Trail Shrines, Rock Cairns, Stacked Rock Features and Rock Markers
(Brian W. Kenny, Archive: Southwestern Archaeology, 1996).

Apache Survival Coalition
Coalition to stop telescope developments on Mt. Graham. Site no longer updated. (Archive: Planet Peace, 1996).

Bear Butte, Black Hills, South Dakota
A photo essay about Bear Butte in the area of the Black Hills. It's a sacred area for the Lakota and Tsistsistas people and now a current area of land conflict with Euroamericans. (Howard J. Vogel, Sacred Sites and Human Rights Web Site, 1998).

Blackfeet: Land and Language is the Heritage
Describes attempts to drill for oil in the Badger-Two Medicine area, a religiously significant area for the Blackfeet under Forest Service jurisdiction. (Andreas Knudsen, Indigenous Affairs. The International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs. Archive: NAE, 1996).

Devil's Tower/Mato Tipi, Wyoming
A distinctive feature of the landscape in eastern Wyoming in the Black Hills of Wyoming and South Dakota. "It is a sacred site of great power to the Lakota, Tsististas and other Native American peoples of the Great Plains." (Howard J. Vogel, Sacred Sites and Human Rights Web Site, 1998).

Dzil Nchaa Si An: Sacred Mountain, Sacred Land
A web directory about opposition to telescope developments on Mt. Graham. ( John J. Campo, 1996).

Friends of the Albuquerque Petroglyphs
FOTAP is one of a number of organizations that attempted to prevent a freeway through Petroglyph National Monument. Congressional action to make it happen seems to have stalled—for the moment. (1997).

How do you Define Sacred?
"A Comanche writer points out that Native Americans rarely agree on anything, including sacred places and spirituality, but believes that the discussion is good for us and that common sense can lead to mutual respect." (Paul C. Smith, High Country News 29(10), May 26, 1997).

Indian Sacred Sites
Addresses access to sacred sites on federal lands. (Willam Clinton, Executive Order, May 24. Washington, DC: United States Government, 1996).

Mount Graham (SEAC-SW)
A long review of the history and politics of telescope developments on Mt. Graham. (Student Environmental Action Coalition-Southwest, 1995).

Native American Repatriation & Reburial: A Bibliography
(Barb Bocek, Archive: Southwestern Archaeology, 1992).

Native American Sacred Sites and the Department of Defense
The report, which is to aid the DoD in managing cultural and natural resources on lands under its jurisdiction, is available on-line. This is quite a resource, including maps, citations, etc. (Vine Jr. Deloria and Richard W. Stoffle, Department of Defense, 1998).

Paving Through Petroglyphs
I include it here because it has nice photographs. (ABCNews.com).

Petroglyph Monument Protection Coalition
Bills have been presented before Congress that would allow freeways through Petroglyph National Monument, a place that "continues to be used by the surrounding Pueblo Indians and is a spiritually and culturally important sacred site to native people."

Sacred Lands Film Project
The Project's films examine struggles to protect sacred sites such as Mt. Shasta and Devils Tower.

Sawmill in Court over Medicine Wheel
Includes map. "Wyoming Sawmills of Sheridan has gone to court to overturn a 1996 U.S. Forest Service plan for managing the Medicine Wheel atop the Bighorn Mountains." (Michael Milstein, Billings Gazette, March 19, 1999).

Snoqualmie Falls, Sacred Site: Federal Agency Recommends Continued Operation of Power Plant
The Federal Regulatory Energy Commission recently renewed a license for the Snoqualmie Falls dam, near Seattle, Washington. The Snoqualmie fought this decision because the falls are a religiously significant area to them. (Marsha Shaiman, Archive: NAE).

Susana Santos Interview
Interview with the co-founder of the Sacred Earth Coalition to protect Mount Hood. Discusses Enola Hill and Mount Hood, as well as political activism more generally. (Patrick Mazza, Cascadia Planet, 1995).

The Sacred and Profane Collide in the West
"The growing desire of Native Americans to protect their sacred sites in the West leads to sometimes acrimonious debate over public access, the First Amendment and the definition of sacred places." (Chris Smith and Elizabeth Manning, High Country News 29(10), May 26, 1997).

"There's a Notion that Indians Practicing Their Religions are Less Than Religious"
"In her own words, Lakota Sioux spiritual and cultural leader Charlotte Black Elk discusses the clash between Native and white spirituality at places like Devils Tower." (Elizabeth Manning, High Country News 29(10), May 26, 1997).