Sacred sites

Mount Rushmore’s First Dedication 100 Years Later

October 3, 2025 Darren Thompson, Last Real Indians. Educate! colonization, Indigenous Sovereignty, Mount Rushmore, Sacred sites

Black Hills — 100 years ago, Mount Rushmore would have its first dedication, and one of three dedications in its first five years of construction. The Rapid City Journal reported that three thousand people joined in the dedication on October 1, 1925, and it was also reported that same evening that project’s creative director—Gutzon Borglum—had no funding to begin construction. Since it inception, perhaps the nation’s most well known monument has had problems and most of those stories haven’t involved Indigenous people. “Over the last 100 years, there has been little history at Mount Rushmore that reflects the Lakota, Dakota, and Nakota people of the Black Hills,” said Darrell Red Cloud, a fifth-generation descendant of Oglala Lakota leader Chief Red Cloud who now teaches Lakota studies at Oglala Lakota College in Kyle, South Dakota on the Pine Ridge Reservation.

Weapons Of War Don’t Belong In Our Schools And Sacred Spaces

August 31, 2025 Levi Rickert, Native News Online. Resist! Assault weapon ban, Gun violence, Mass Shootings, Sacred sites

As the school year resumes across the United States, so too has the tragic recurrence of school shootings. Since August 1, there have been five such incidents nationwide. On Wednesday morning, a devastating attack unfolded at Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis. Just before 8:30 a.m., during morning Mass, a 23-year-old former student opened fire outside the school’s chapel. The shooting lasted only a few minutes but left lasting and tragic consequences: two students were killed, and 18 others were injured — including 15 students between the ages of 6 and 15, as well as three elderly parishioners in their 80s. Minnesota Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan (White Earth Ojibwe) issued a statement that read: “My heart goes out to all those affected by the terrifying act of violence at Annunciation Catholic school this morning.

Opposing The Transfer Of Native Sacred Land Isn’t ‘Anti-American’

August 28, 2025 Levi Rickert, Native News Online. Educate! Indigenous culture, Mining, Sacred sites, Trump Administration

With a deadline looming for the ownership transfer of Oak Flat to Resolution Copper, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals last week granted an emergency injunction that temporarily halted the transfer. Within 24 hours, President Donald Trump weighed in on the debate with inflammatory, ill-informed rhetoric on social media. He called the appeals court a “Radical Left Court” for issuing the emergency injunction blocking the transfer of Oak Flat to foreign-owned mining interests. In his post, Trump wrote “our country, quite simply, needs copper–and NOW.” He went further, labeling those who oppose the mine as “anti-American,” suggesting they’re working against the interests of the United States.

Apache Women Ask Courts To Halt Land Swap For Oak Flat

July 29, 2025 Debra Utacia Krol, The Arizona Republic. Resist! Apache Stronghold, Land Rights, Legal System, Mining, Oak Flat, Sacred sites

A group of Apache women asked a federal judge in Washington, D.C., to halt a disputed land exchange at the center of a long battle over plans to build a huge copper mine at Oak Flat. It's the fourth lawsuit that seeks to stop the U.S. Forest Service from signing over title to the site, held sacred by Apache peoples and culturally significant by other tribes, to Resolution Copper in exchange for other plots of environmentally sensitive land in Arizona. The four women, who all have spiritual and cultural connections to the 2,200-acre campground in Tonto National Forest about 60 miles east of Phoenix, filed their suit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia July 24.

San Carlos Apache Tribe Welcomes Federal Court Ruling On Oak Flat

June 10, 2025 San Carlos Apache, Popular Resistance. Resist! Arizona, Indigenous Activism, Legal System, Mining, Oak Flat, Sacred sites, Trump Administration

San Carlos Apache Reservation, Ariz. —The San Carlos Apache Tribe welcomes Friday’s federal court ruling preventing the Trump Administration from trading sacred Oak Flat to Chinese-backed Resolution Copper Mining no sooner than 60 days after the government releases an environmental report expected to be published later this month. The Trump Administration had indicated that it intended to trade 2,422 acres of Tonto National Forest 70 miles east of Phoenix that includes Oak Flat to Resolution Copper immediately upon publication of the mine’s updated environmental report.

The Oceti Sakowin Fight To Protect A Key Sacred Site In South Dakota

June 10, 2025 John Ahni Schertow, Intercontinental Cry. Resist! Great Sioux Nation, Indigenous Rights, Mining, Oceti Sakowin, Sacred sites

The Oceti Sakowin, also known as the Great Sioux Nation, are actively opposing a proposed exploratory drilling project on lands adjacent to the sacred site of Pe’sla in the Black Hills of South Dakota. The campaign is one of many Indigenous efforts around the world that seek to defend and reclaim ancestral lands from the extractive industry. A high-elevation meadow also known as Reynolds Prairie, Pe’sla is of deep spiritual importance to the Lakota, Nakota, and Dakota tribes, which have used it for ceremonial gatherings for thousands of years. According to Lakota oral traditions, Pe’Sla is the site of creation, “a bald spot among the pine-treed hills…where the Morning Star came down to help the people”.

Where Spirits Weep Beneath The Snow: The Cry Against Arizona Snowbowl

May 22, 2025 Natasha Cortinos, The Daily Wildcat. Educate! Arizona, Environment, Indigenous Rights, pollution, Sacred sites

On the western slope of Arizona’s highest landmark, Humphreys Peak, and approximately 4.8 miles from its 12,633-foot-tall summit, rests the skeleton of a 777-acre-wide ski resort. The Arizona Snowbowl, a piece of engineering made up of eight lifts that serve 61 runs, is beloved by some but resented by others. It’s been torn between these two sides since 1938, the year it first started serving skiers from Arizona and beyond on its groomed runs, tree-lined back bowls and terrain parks. Flagstaff meteorologist Mark Stubblefield has been riding the Snowbowl’s slopes almost every winter since 1987.

Apache Stronghold Makes Emergency Appeal To Save Oak Flat

April 25, 2025 Apache Stronghold, Popular Resistance. Resist! Apache Stronghold, Copper Mine, Legal System, Oak Flat, Sacred sites

A coalition of Western Apaches, other Native peoples, and non-Native allies asked a federal court late yesterday to stop the U.S. government from handing over their sacred site at Oak Flat to a multinational mining giant as early as June 16, 2025. In Apache Stronghold v. United States, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals last year refused to stop the federal government from transferring Oak Flat to Resolution Copper, a Chinese-owned mining company that plans to turn the site into a massive mining crater, ending Apache religious practices forever. The emergency appeal comes after the government announced last week it will forge ahead with the transfer even though the case is currently under consideration by the U.S. Supreme Court.

US Intends To Proceed With Arizona Copper Mine, Justices Told

April 24, 2025 Crystal Owens, Law 360. Educate! Arizona, Copper Mine, Indigenous Sovereignty, Oak Flat, Sacred sites, Supreme Court

The U.S. government says there has been no doubt that it intends to proceed with a land exchange in Arizona for a planned multibillion-dollar copper mine, telling the U.S. Supreme Court that its recent notice of publication of a final environmental impact statement for the project does not constitute urgent review. There is nothing about the 60-day notice, which was filed in an Arizona federal court and published in the Federal Register on April 17, that supports claims by the Apache Stronghold that there may have been some uncertainty about the federal government's intent to move forward with the land transfer, the government told the high court in a Monday letter.

Permit for Pipeline Reconstruction Near Sacred Site Rescinded

January 10, 2025 Akičita Šuŋka-Wakaŋ Ska, Unicorn Riot. Resist! Indigenous Activism, Indigenous Rights, Minnesota, Pipelines, Sacred sites, St. Paul, Victory

St. Paul, MN — Minnesota regulators have rescinded a controversial permit allowing Magellan Pipeline Co. to reconstruct a petroleum pipeline near Pipestone National Monument, following sustained opposition from tribal nations, community groups, and environmental advocates. The decision, made during a recent Minnesota Public Utilities Commission (PUC) public hearing, reflects mounting pressure to safeguard the sacred site and its surrounding environment. The PUC unanimously voted to revoke the route permit granted in Oct. 2024 and favored the RA-01 pipeline route (alternative proposed by the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe — 13.1 miles long), citing inadequate tribal consultation and incomplete cultural and archaeological surveys.

Guide To Preserving Sacred Land Near You

January 9, 2025 Jimmy Videle, Resilience. Organize! Biodiversity, climate crisis, Environment, Land Conservation, Sacred sites

Anthropogenic climate change and biodiversity loss are the most pressing issues for our planet. Carbon dioxide emissions in the atmosphere continue to rise due to the burning of fossil fuels and land use change, with the latter occurring primarily in the form of animal agriculture and growing crops to feed livestock. Biodiversity loss is greatly enhanced by these climate changes, causing catastrophic threats to nature. Because these unprecedented climate changes make modeling future scenarios relatively impossible, region-by-region data is the only reliable tool, so conservation efforts must begin regionally.

NDN Collective Completes Landback Deal In Alaska

November 20, 2024 NDN Collective. Create! Alaska, Indigenous Sovereignty, Landback Movement, Sacred sites

Cordova, AK –Last week, NDN Collective through our community development arm, NDN Holdings, finalized a LANDBACK deal with the Eyak Community Land Trust in Alaska and transferred title to two acres of land back to the Eyak people. In October 2021, NDN Collective was made aware of an opportunity to purchase land along Eyak Lake on the southern coast of the state. NDN Holdings purchased the land and began working with the Eyak community to transfer ownership. As of this week, the two acre property will now be wholly owned by Eyak Community Land Trust, which was established in collaboration with Native Conservancy, and be used by the community to host cultural and ecological education workshops.

Indigenous Spiritual Walk Protests Last Conventional Uranium Mill

November 2, 2024 Alex Binder, Unicorn Riot. Resist! Indigenous Activism, Sacred sites, Uranium, Utah

White Mesa, UT — The White Mesa Mill was built in 1979 with plans to process uranium ore for 15 years. With the facility now well past its initial operational lifespan, the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe, other Indigenous tribes and allies continue their call for it to be shut down and cleaned up. On October 12, over 75 people participated in an annual spiritual walk in opposition to the mill, which is the last conventional uranium processing plant in operation in the United States. Participants met at the White Mesa Community Center in southern Utah at 11 a.m., then walked five miles north on the shoulder of U.S. Highway 191 to rally outside the mill.

Apache Stronghold Takes Case Against Copper Mine To The Supreme Court

September 12, 2024 Debra Utacia Krol, Arizona Central. Resist! Copper Mine, Indigenous Rights, Mining, Oak Flat, Sacred sites, Supreme Court

After a two-month pilgrimage across the nation, Apache Stronghold formally presented its appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday in a final bid to stop a massive copper mine from obliterating one of the Apache peoples' most sacred sites. The high court was the last hope for the group after the full 29-justice 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals refused to review the case. Opponents of the mine say the case will be a test of how the court and the government view the religious rights of Indigenous people. Apache Stronghold in April asked the full Ninth Circuit panel to review its lawsuit against the U.S. and Resolution Copper. That move followed an opinion issued by a panel of 11 appeals court judges that ruled narrowly against Apache Stronghold in March, about a year after oral arguments.

Apache Stronghold On Journey Of Prayer To The Supreme Court

August 31, 2024 Apache Stronghold, Popular Resistance. Resist! Apache Stronghold, Indigenous Sovereignty, Legal System, Oak Flat, Sacred sites, Supreme Court

On July 11th, 2024, the Apache Stronghold started the journey of prayer to the Supreme Court to stop the shattering of human existence and to protect Mother Earth. We have traveled, held ceremonies and gathered prayers from Tribes, Communities, Churches, and people in support of saving Oak Flat and religious freedom and protections for all. We began in the Northwest, Westcoast, South, mid-west to the East to gather in Washington DC at the Supreme court on September 11. We are appealing a lower court ruling that would have allowed the total destruction of Oak Flat by allowing the land to be transferred to Resolution Copper, a foreign owned company, owned by BHP and Rio Tinto.

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