Links
Environmental & Cultural Advocates
www.flagstaffactivist.org
The Flagstaff Activist Network
www.sw-center.org/swcbd
Center for Biological Diversity
www.sierraclub.org
The Sierra Club
www.treatycouncil.org
The International Indian Treaty Council (IITC) is an organization of Indigenous Peoples from North, Central, South America and the Pacific working for the Sovereignty and Self-Determination of Indigenous Peoples and the recognition and protection of Indigenous Rights, Traditional Cultures and Sacred Lands.
www.ienearth.org
Indigenous Environmental Network
www.ncai.org
National Congress of the American Indian
http://www.tonatierra.org
An Indigenous Peoples Community Development Organization
Sacred Sites Protection
www.sacredland.org
Earth Island Institute’s Sacred Land Film Project produces a variety of media and educational materials - films, videos, DVDs, articles, photographs, school curricula materials and Web site content - to deepen public understanding of sacred places, indigenous cultures and environmental justice.
View their online map of sacred sites: http://www.sacredland.org/sacred_lands.html
www.protectsacredsites.org
This website is dedicated to the protection of our American Indian sacred sites and our ancestors all across Turtle Island.
www.sagecouncil.org
Sacred Alliance for Grassroots Equality
www.mountgraham.org
Arizona's Mount Graham is a unique ecological treasure that is sacred to the San Carlos Apache. For decades, Apaches, scientists, conservationists, and university students have resisted the University of Arizona's decision to build several large telescopes on the mountain's summit.
www.winnememwintu.us
The Winnemem Wintu have struggled succesfully to protect Mt. Shasta and continue the fight to protect their sacred lands.
www.defendbearbutte.org
Website of the "Inter-Tribal Coalition to Defend Bear Butte"
www.arcticrefugeaction.org
Arctic Refuge Action is a coalition of conservation, labor, religious and other citizen groups representing millions of Americans who believe the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge should remain wild, unspoiled, and free of oil rigs.
www.blackmesais.org
Black Mesa Indigenous Support
www.shundahai.org
Over a Decade of Resistance - Dedicated to Breaking the Nuclear Chain
Shundahai is a Newe (Western Shoshone) word meaning "Peace and Harmony with all Creation"
www.wsdp.org
Western Shoshone Defense Project
www.sacredsites.com
Photos and listing of sacred sites throughout the world.
Legal
www.shankerlaw.net
The Shanker Law Firm represents the Navajo Nation, the White Mountain Apache Tribe, the Yavapai-Apache Nation, and the Havasupai Tribe in litigation against the federal government that tests the boundaries of protections offered to Native American religious beliefs and cultural practices vis-à-vis federal government land use decisions.
www.dnalegalservices.org
DNA-People's Legal Services, Inc. is a nonprofit law firm. "We provide free legal services in civil matters to qualified low-income residents on and near the Navajo Nation."
www.narf.org
Founded in 1970, the Native American Rights Fund (NARF) is the oldest and largest nonprofit law firm dedicated to asserting and defending the rights of Indian tribes, organizations and individuals nationwide.
www.senate.gov/~scia/2002hrgs/060402hrg/sacredsites.PDF
Fact sheet in senate records made by the Morning Star Institute on Sacred SItes.
http://www.lib.latrobe.edu.au/AHR/archive/Issue-June-1997/gelder.html
In depth article about how government deals with secrets regarding sacred places.
Wilson V. Block
[708 F. 2d 735 (1983)], a Hopi and Navajo attempt to preclude expansion of the Arizona Snow Bowl ski area in the San Francisco Peaks, near Flagstaff.
Media Resources
www.indianz.com
Internet resource for Indigenous news.
www.indigenousaction.org
Indigenous Action Media - Website development, documentary filmmaking & media campaign consultation.
Wastewater Research
Hydrologic Report
Read the Save the Peaks Coalition Comments on the DEIS (PDF 522k)
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