Sentences with phrase «desecrate sacred 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.

They say building the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) on the slopes of Mauna Kea, on Hawaii's Big Island, would desecrate a sacred site.

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But the Standing Rock Sioux, whose tribal lands are a half - mile south of the proposed route, have said the pipeline could pollute the tribe's drinking water and desecrate sacred burial and prayer sites.

The Standing Rock Sioux tribe, whose drinking water and sacred sites have been desecrated by this pipeline, already announced plans to sue to stop any action to expedite DAPL.

If the resort proceeded, this sacred site of Qat» muk would be desecrated and cause Grizzly Bear Spirit to leave, severing the Ktunaxa's connection to the land and making their religious beliefs and practices meaningless.