2022 Sacred Places News Stories
Tribal groups call for halt to logging at ‘sacred and culturally historic’ site near Yakutat (KTOO) 12/19/22
Tribes intervene in lawsuit restoring two Utah national monuments (Native News Online) 12/13/22
Biden gets bill to stop illegal exportation of Native items (Santa Fe New Mexican) 12/e/22
Avi Kwa Ame to be Nevada’s next national monument, Biden promises (Las Vegas Review-Journal) 11/30/22
Bill to Safeguard Tribal Objects of Patrimony (STOP) Act passes Senate (Native News Online) 11/30/22
Federal court to rehear Apache Stronghold’s case to protect sacred site (Native News Online) 11/22/22
Tribe continues fight against proposed copper mine (Indian Country Today) 11/17/22
Federal legislation aims to permanently withdraw lands around Chaco from mineral leasing (NM Political Report) 11/17/22
Digging into a massacre: Indigenous people say a lithium mine project in the West will desecrate a sacred site (Sacramento News & Review) 11/16/22
Yakama Nation sues ODOT over destruction of sacred site (Columbia Gorge News) 10/26/22
Public process points to Bears Ears’ potential — and challenges (Indian Country Today) 10/19/22
Tribal elders ask US Supreme Court to hear case over a desecrated site on Mount Hood (Oregon Public Broadcasting) 10/10/22
Menominee tribal officials finally have say over mining projects near Menominee River (Green Bay Press Gazette) 10/5/22
Native Americans seek protection for sacred land at Supreme Court (Red Lake Nation News) 10/5/22
Tribal leaders urge support for bills to protect cultural, sacred sites (Indianz) 10/3/22
Native Americans’ decadeslong struggle for control over sacred lands is making progress (The Conversation) 9/30/22
Sharing management of sacred and important lands (Native America Calling) 9/26/22
Shash Jaa’ a ‘temple’ for Natives: Land protectors say Bears Ears fight not over (Navajo Times) 9/19/22
Tribal leaders urge support for bills to protect cultural, sacred sites (Tucson Sentinel) 9/15/22
National Park Service pledges to work with tribes to protect cultural sites on public lands (Arizona Republic) 9/14/22
Apache Stronghold heads back to court to protect sacred Oak Flat (Indianz) 9/6/22
Utah sues Biden over Bears Ears, Grand Staircase restorations (Navajo-Hopi Observer) 8/30/22
In 1918, US Steel dug up nearly 200 Ojibwe graves. Now the Lake Superior tribe's sacred burial sites have been returned (Wisconsin Public Radio) 8/24/22
Utah sues to stop restoration of boundaries at Bears Ears, Grand Staircase monuments (NPR) 8/24/22
At Oak Flat, courts and politicians fail tribes (High Country News) 7/26/22
Plan for quarry near Gilroy draws Indigenous tribe's blowback (CBS) 7/23/22
Tribes, Air Force eye protection of sacred sites during ICBM project (Standard-Examiner) 7/15/22
Federal appeals court greenlights destruction of sacred Native land (Indian Country Today) 6/27/22
All Pueblo Council of Governors travels to DC to urge the Biden administration to finalize protections for sacred Chaco landscape (Indian Country Today) 6/23/22
Bureau of Land Management, Forest Service, and five tribes of the Bears Ears Commission commit to historic co-management of Bears Ears National Monument (Indian Country Today) 6/20/22
Sacred in the city: Indigenous site in St. Paul prepared to welcome, educate public (MPR News) 6/14/22
On the importance of protecting land sacred to Native communities (National Geographic) 6/14/22
Land acquisition near Mt. Taylor brings sacred sites out of private ownership, preserves habitat (NM Political Report) 6/9/22
Tribes request temporary restraining order to prevent Rosemont Copper from destroying west side of Santa Rita Mountains (Earth Justice) 4/20/22
Can the US go green without destroying sacred Native lands? (Mother Jones) May/June 2022
EVs’ demand for copper escalates threat against Apache’s Oak Flat (High Country News) 4/20/22
‘Recovering Ancient Spiro’: Remembering one of Native America’s most forgotten but important sites (Indianz) 4/14/22
A Native American burial ground in Chester County is returning to its ‘rightful owners’ (The Philadelphia Inquirer) 4/13/22
Lack of tribal consultation by the Interior Department regarding Chaco Canyon a major concern for Navajo Nation leaders (Indian Country Today) 3/21/22
White House Council on Native American Affairs discusses interagency effort to protect and increase access to Indigenous sacred sites (Char-Koosta News) 3/18/22
Lithium mining threatens Arizona tribe's sacred spring (Earth Justice) 3/16/22
Biden official tours Oak Flat as Forest Service begins talks with tribes over copper mine (Arizona Central) 2/11/22
Native rights group launches a project aimed at protecting Indigenous sacred spaces (Arizona Central) 2/3/22
Feeling 'the presence of my ancestors': Protecting sacred Indigenous land near Joshua Tree (Desert Sun) 2/2/22
NHPA as a model for the protection of saced places in other nations (Advisory Council on Historic Preservation) 1/26/22
Native activist found not guilty in border protest after new arguments on religious freedom defense (Arizona Mirror) 1/19/22
‘Cultural resources are not a renewable thing for us.’ (High Country News) 1/1/22
