2007 Sacred Places News Stories

• • Tribes in fight to save sacred mountain (The Scotsman) 12/18/07

• • Rounds wants to protect Bear Butte (Rapid City Journal) 12/16/07

• • Appeals court rehears San Francisco Peaks case (Indianz.com) 12/12/07

• • Native Tribes take on ski resort (Inter Press Service) 12/9/07

• • Navajo Nation seeks support for sacred site case (Indianz.com) 12/3/07

• • Off-reservation cultural property protection (Indian Country Today) 11/1/07

• • A sacred past collides with the future (The Providence Journal) 10/31/07

• • 21st century Indian wars (Indian Country Today) 10/25/07

• • Snowbowl's bid to recycle sewage revived (The Arizona Republic) 10/25/07

• • Appeals court to rehear sacred site case (Indianz.com) 10/18/07

• • Designation of sacred land is open to interpretation - even among tribal leaders (The Sun) 8/18/07

• • Far from the reservation, but still sacred? (The New York Times) 8/12/07

• • Tribes, firefighters cooperate to save sacred sites (Los Angeles Times) 8/2/07

• • Pueblo wants site protected (The Albuquerque Journal) 8/2/07

• • No remains unearthed by church construction on Oasis Road (Record Searchlight) 7/27/07

• • Group plans for prayer group at Bear Butte during rally (Rapid City Journal) 7/26/07

• • Tribe works to save ancestral land from fire (Nevada Appeal) 7/11/07

• • Mohegans get back sacred rock linked to Uncas (The Day) 7/3/07

• • San Carlos unites other against mine (Arizona Silver Belt) 6/26/07

• • Sacred sites, and their stories, must be saved (Seattle Post-Intelligencer) 6/22/07

• • Tribes fight land exchange to mining company (East Valley Tribune) 6/19/07

• • National Day of Prayer for sacred sites on June 21 (Indianz.com) 6/19/07

• • Protesters of new Quechan casino arrested (The Sun) 6/12/07

• • Ho-Chunk reclaim mounds at Highway 16 wayside (Portage Daily Register) 6/6/07

• • Denial of snowmaking appealed (Arizona Daily Sun) 5/31/07

• • Sacred site for sale (Indian Country Today) 5/28/07

• • Tribe drawn into both sides of Palm Springs development fight (The Press-Enterprise) 5/28/07

• • Sacred lands, sewer snow (InTheseTimes.com) 5/17/07

• • The return of Lyle Point to Yakama tribe (Yakima Herald-Republic) 5/15/07

• • Church clearing halted (Redding.com) 5/15/07

• • Charges against Indians dismissed (The Star Tribune) 5/10/07

• • Artifacts pit American Indians against museums (Orlando Sentinel) 5/10/07

• • Bridge project on hold after discovery of possible Indian site (KGW.com) 5/6/07

• • Killsback: Protecting Noavose [Bear Butte] (Indian Country Today) 5/4/07

• • Song for Sand Creek (The Denver Post) 4/29/07

• • Give tribes sacred place to worship (Rapid City Journal) 4/16/07

• • Ski Santa Fe: Pueblos agree to dimissclaims against expansion (Newmexican) 4/14/07

• • New rule may help Native American tribes reclaim artifacts (Arizona Central) 4/12/07

• • 9th Circuit blocks snowmaking at sacred peaks (Indianz.com) 3/12/07

• • Help for ancient remains and landowners passes (Deseret News) 3/2/07

• • Sitting Bull's kin seek home for chief's bones (Billings Gazette) 2/22/07

• • Native Graves: Burden of proof (Seattle Post Intelligencer) 2/21/07

• • Bones of contention go home (Denver Post) 2/09/07

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