And another thing. The federales should own NO government land! All should be given to the states in which that land is located.
Partial list of some of the “sacred sites” listed for protection. Many are on private land.
The Glen Cove Shellmound site in Vallejo, California, known to the Ohlone Peoples as Sogorea Te;
Black Mesa, sacred homelands of the Dine’ (Navajo) and Hopi Peoples;
The Mound temples and historic villages of the Muscogee in Mississippi;
The Traditional Ceremonial lands of the Karuk in northern California;
The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska, known to the Gwich’in as “the sacred place where life begins”;
Red Butte, a sacred place to the Havasupai, threatened by uranium mining;
Eagle Rock, a spiritual site threatened by a nickel and copper sulfide mine;
The Sacred Headwaters of northern British Colombia, threatened by coalbed methane gas developments
Teztan Biny, also in British Colombia, which may be soon turned into a mine waste dump site.
Tsankui Theda, a sacred site to the Denesoline of Lutsel K’e/Kache Dene First Nation, and many other tribes, threatened by a proposed Hydro Expansion project;
The San Francisco Peaks, held sacred by over 13 Indigenous Nations;
The sacred Cherokee site of Kituwah, threatened by a new electrical station;
The Shoshone Spiritual site of Mount Tenabo, threatened by an open pit gold mine;
Mount Graham and Apache Leap, sacred to the San Carlos Apache;
Several Sacred sites and burial grounds within the Porcupine Provincial Forest in Saskatchewan;
Several Haudenosuanee burial mounds in Toronto’s High Park, threatened by development and recreational activities;
The Sutter Buttes of Northern California, sacred to the Maidu and Wintun;
The McCloud River Watershed, sacred to the Winnemem Wintu;
Ancient Haudenosuanee Burial Mounds in Toronto’s High Park, threatened by development and recreational activities
The sacred sites of the O’odham, threatened by a new freeway project.