Mayan Pyramid Bulldozed for Road Fill in Belize
A construction company in Belize all but destroyed a Mayan...
Wounded Knee Historic Site Now for Sale on the Open Market
  The May 1 deadline came and went without a word from the...
9th Circuit Allows Hopi Case Against Arizona Snowbowl to be Heard
  The Hopi Tribe may have hit on a successful strategy to...
A Conversation With Wounded Knee Owner James Czywczynski
James Czywczynski, the owner of the site of the Wounded...
Casa Grande Ruins Among Architectural Marvels of Arizona
While the pyramids of Egypt, some dating back to 4,000 B.C...
Tribes Have Mixed Feelings About Tightrope Walker Coming to the Grand Canyon
Famed tightrope walker Nik Wallenda last made headlines in...
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Sacred Sites

Repatriation Committee Veteran Discusses the Arduous Process of Returning Artifacts, Being Retired and Planning Powwows

Simon Moya-Smith
July 05, 2012
Roland McCook and Dr. Cristian K. Samper, director of the Museum of Natural History at the Smithsonian...

Video Spotlight: Elwha River Dam Removal

ICTMN Staff
June 30, 2012
This video, posted by YouTube user Jakob Marklew, gives an overview of the Elwha River dam removal that includes interviews with Robert Elofson, the river restoration director, con...

On This Day in 1541, Francisco Pizarro, Bane of the Incas, Was Assassinated

ICTMN Staff
June 26, 2012
At the height of its existence, the Inca Empire ran some 2,500 miles along the Andean range from Colombia to Chile, had more than 10 million subjects and was home to Cuzco, a city ...

Protesters Say Vallejo Park Construction Desecrated Shellmound and Burial Ground

Marc Dadigan
June 25, 2012
The Glen Cove Waterfront Park in Vallejo, California is a small 15-acre park on the coast of the Carquinez Strait, a natural tidal channel, but the gulf between the two June 16th g...

Sacred Sites Along the McCloud River Endangered, Winnemem Wintu Fight For Coming of Age Ceremony Privacy

Marc Dadigan
June 24, 2012
At the old Winnemem Wintu village of Kaibai, which lines the emerald waters of the McCloud River Arm of Shasta Lake in Northern California, a trio of sacred sites cast a “mist” of ...

Haskell Student Shares a Song Along the Trail of Broken Promises, a Trek to Protect Sacred Places

ICTMN Staff
June 23, 2012
In the video below, posted by the Trail of Broken Promises, Millicent Pepion shares a song with those gathered at the Potawatomi Trail of Death marker in Brunswick, Missouri...

Sacred Sites: Viejas Band of Kumeyaay Indians Needs Prayer to Save Imperiled Burial Grounds From Ocotillo

ICTMN Staff
June 23, 2012
The good news is that there has been progress in protecting a burial ground and ceremonial site from a dam project...

Quechan Tribe Sues to Halt Construction of Wind Factory on Sacred Land

Gale Courey Toensing
June 23, 2012
The Interior Department’s Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has the following warning on its web page regarding Southern California’s Coyote Mountains Wilderness Area: “Removal, dist...

Celebrate the Great Mound of Mound Bottom in Tennessee

ICTMN Staff
June 22, 2012
In observance of National Sacred Places Prayer Days , a Muscogee “Creek” Citizens Gathering will take place on Saturday, June 23, at 10 a.m., at The Great Mound, Mound Bottom archa...

Turtle Lodge Calls for Prayerful Water Offering to Mother Earth

Steven Newcomb
June 21, 2012
From May 24 through 27, 2012, Valerie Taliman and I attended the Gathering of Wisdom Keepers, organized by Anishnaabe spiritual leader Dave Courchene and the Turtle Lodge , which i...

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