Native Sacred Places Are Everywhere: Why Recognition and Protection Matter

By Riley Ehlert and Amelie Lock* 
  
For many Americans, Native sacred places are treated as distant relics of the past — isolated cliff dwellings, famous landmarks, or sites featured in tourism campaigns and history textbooks. This narrow understanding obscures a much deeper truth: Native sacred places exist throughout the United States, including within cities, suburbs, farmland, forests, waterways, and neighborhoods that millions of people move through every day without recognizing what lives under their feet. 

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