R&S->Sacred Places: OTRR We are all one family
Posted on Friday, October 26 @ 18:18:27 PDT (874 reads)

AUTHOR AND PHOTOGRAPHER: Shelley Bluejay Pierce

As we completed our prayers, we all sat there with the buffalo herd in silence. The buffalo had been making their low, gentle calls back and forth to each other during the entire time we had been praying and singing for and with them. Yet at the end of the prayers, we all, as one family, sat in peace and silence together.

Slowly the real world began to slip back into the moment and the sounds of bustling tourists and cars crept back into the present. And then, as is most often the case with our Native relatives, the laughter began. Gentle teasing and loving laughter went back and forth between us all and we slowly began our journey back to the parking area.

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R&S->Sacred Places: OTRR Gang Graffiti Sprayed on Petroglyph National Monument
Posted on Sunday, April 29 @ 02:20:43 PDT (2686 reads)

Tags on the rocks read "TSK," short for Too Sick Krew, an offshoot of another gang. They have been embroiled in a four-year war with rival gang TCK, or Thugs Causing Kaos, that has been blamed for homicides, drugs and stolen vehicles.

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R&S->Sacred Places: OTRR Regaining The Mdewakantons Mille Lacs ancestral homeland
Posted on Saturday, March 24 @ 16:49:15 PST (4003 reads)

Wahkon writes By Thomas Ivan Dahlheimer

On a Mille Lacs Kathio State Park interpretive sign, Leonard E. Wabasha is quoted as saying: "My people are the Mdewakanton Oyate. Mdewakanton means the People of Spirit Lake. Today that lake is known as Mille Lacs. This landscape is sacred to the Mdewakanton Oyate because one Otokaheys Woyakapi (creation story) says we were created here.

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R&S->Sacred Places: OTRR Symbol of Fortune
Posted on Monday, June 05 @ 06:44:52 PDT (6129 reads)

AUTHOR: Mina Vedder

The old-growth forest in Arlecho Creek is special to the Lummi tribe. It is a place of spiritual worship and a place to interact with Mother Nature.

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R&S->Sacred Places: OTRR Navajo Medicinemen's Association holds protection ceremony
Posted on Sunday, May 14 @ 13:22:37 PDT (3942 reads)

AUTHOR: Somana Yaiva, The Observer

Amidst the dust and set into the backdrop of the San Francisco Peaks, the Navajo Medicinemen's Association held a weekend long ceremony over April 21 through 23 for the safeguarding and continued protection of the sacred San Francisco Peaks.

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R&S->Sacred Places: OTRR Apaches say moving rocks 100 feet would destroy their spiritual significance
Posted on Wednesday, November 23 @ 15:30:16 PST (4218 reads)

AUTHOR: Erik Siemers, Tribune Reporter

To the American Indians who hold them sacred, the seven rocks in the way of Paseo del Norte's westward expansion aren't inanimate stones. They're alive. They're connections to their sacred earth that can't be replicated 100 feet away.

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R&S->Sacred Places: Sacred Lands Protection Events -Fall 2003
Posted on Thursday, September 11 @ 20:10:25 PDT (5081 reads)

KEYWORDS: native american events calendar protecting native american sacred places prayer vigil struggling for American Indian religious freedom protecting native american historic places on public lands protection of sacred places National Trust for Historic Preservation Conference International Indian Treaty Council Bear Butte protection court case Defenders of the Black Hills Amnesty International Human Rights Film Festival

Calendar of Events:

September 18 -Thursday
1:00 PM: REMEMBER, THE BLACK HILLS ARE SACRED RALLY

Sept. 20 & 21st
Sunrise (20th) until 3PM (21st): 11th Annual Prayer Vigil for the Earth

September 21 - Sunday
6PM - 9PM: Film Premiere: "A SEAT AT THE TABLE; Struggling For American Indian Religious Freedom," closing night event of the Amnesty International Human Rights Film Festival

September 30 - Tuesday
8-5pm: Legal Workshop: Protecting Native American Historic Places on Public Lands

October 3 - Friday
1PM 5PM: Native American Sacred Lands Seminar - Protection of Sacred Lands National Trust for Historic Preservation Conference

October 3 - 6
29th Anniversary Treaty Conference: Defending Our Land and Sovereignty

Nov. 4 -7
Bear Butte Protection Court Case

Nov. 14 - 16
Tribal/Federal Summit on the Protection of Sacred Places

Click on the "Read More" link for more details about each of these events.

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