Sentences with phrase «american sacred sites»

«They would destroy some Native American sacred sites and we just don't have water to fill them.

Camelback Mountain and the Phoenix Mountains contained Native American sacred sites which had been visited for centuries.

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Native Americans march to a burial ground sacred site that was disturbed by bulldozers building the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL), near the encampment where hundreds of people have gathered to join the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe's protest of the oil pipeline that is slated to cross the Missouri River nearby, Sept. 4, 2016 near Cannon Ball, North Dakota.

The Native Americans and protesters say the $ 3.8 billion pipeline threatens water resources and sacred sites.

But as you head toward New England and beyond, I'd like to suggest four additional sites, sacred to the chain of memory that is American religion.

There they could gawk and gape and revere, as high schoolers are enabled and goaded to do during spring vacation trips to sacred sites in Washington, D.C. Are the young people in American churches grasping, or able to grasp, this hero?

Although researchers have longed to excavate the site, called Comb Wash, the cost — roughly $ 1 million — and the time — about five years — have been prohibitive, not to mention the opposition by Native Americans to disturbing sacred grounds.

«The environmental justice issues facing Native American communities range from direct environmental, public health, cultural and sacred sites impacts, to lack of meaningful involvement and fair treatment in the governmental decision - making processes,» according to an emailed response by the EPA's press office.

The lawsuit claims that the permits are necessary since the project could harm the Salmon Trout River, wetlands, endangered species and sacred Native American sites.

Native American tribes and climate activists have vowed to fight the pipeline, fearing it will desecrate sacred sites and endanger a source of the country's largest drinking water reservoir.

In order to save these island species, as well as protect sacred Chumash Native American cultural sites, the National Park Service and The Nature Conservancy embarked upon a multi-year program to help restore balance to Santa Cruz Island's naturally functioning ecosystems.

Because, as the exhibition «Nature and the American Vision: The Hudson River School» argues, the notion of an American landscape brimming with sacred sites... read more... «Hudson River School painters at the New - York Historical Society»

The third show in a series on Hudson River School paintings from the collection argues that the idea of an American landscape filled with «sacred» sites is as much a cultural invention as it is an accident of nature.

Native Americans from one the poorest reservations in the country are using cell phones, Twitter and Facebook to throw a flash mob in Times Square to save a sacred site in Arizona stolen by a multi-national mining company in Australia.

In early 2016 in the midwestern United States, a diverse coalition of Native American tribes began to protest the construction of the Dakota Access underground oil pipeline that was an impending threat to their water supply and sacred sites.