Marty Two Bulls, 'Arizona Snowbowl'

Suzan Shown Harjo

USDA's Culture War Against Sacred Places

Amid the top-volume crossfire these days about whose religion and whose health could be threatened by federal actions, it’s noteworthy that debaters and bloviators alike don’t notice or don’t care about ongoing violations of Native American Peoples’ religious freedom and well being....

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February 15, 2012

The San Francisco Peaks: A Photo Gallery

ICTMN Staff
February 12, 2012

Sacred Site Faces Legalized Desecration From Arizona Snowbowl Wastewater

ICTMN Staff
February 10, 2012
The Navajo call them Doko’oo’sliid , or “Shining On Top.” To the Hopi, the peaks are Nuvatukaovi , or “The Place of Snow on the Very Top.” Whatever name they bear, the San Francisc...

The Snowbowl Scheme Seems Absurd; it Just Might Be Carcinogenically Serious

ICTMN Staff
February 10, 2012
There is a famous bit in Monty Python and the Holy Grail where the King of Swamp Castle describes his struggle to build his large medieval edifice...

Ninth Circuit Allows Recycled Sewage on Sacred San Francisco Peaks

Gale Courey Toensing
February 10, 2012
A federal appeals court has given an Arizona ski resort operating on federal land permission to use recycled sewage to make artificial snow on Humphrey’s Peak—the highest and the m...

Wastewater For Snow a Go at San Francisco Peak’s Snowbowl

ICTMN Staff
February 10, 2012
On February 9, American Indians and environmentalists were hit hard when the U.S...

Thanksgiving to Bring Sewage Snow to San Francisco Peaks

ICTMN Staff
October 24, 2012
The legal fights are lost , the sanctioned attorney has been de-sanctioned , and the wastewater is set to flow...

San Francisco Peaks' Snowbowl Plight Featured in The New York Times

ICTMN Staff
September 28, 2012
After years of fighting to maintain the integrity of the San Francisco Peaks, the 13 tribes that have worshipped at the sacred site for thousands of years may soon see it covered i...

San Francisco Peaks Lawyer in the Clear; Snowbowl Fight Continues

Anne Minard
September 14, 2012
The Arizona attorney who fought against using reclaimed wastewater to make snow on the San Francisco Peaks has been cleared of an order to repay the defendants’ costs...

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