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Shasta Dam Raise Will Destroy Native American Culture

 A coalition of Native American and environmental leaders sent a letter to Senator Barbara Boxer : Shasta Dam Raise Will Destroy Native American Culture

Originally Published by Daily KOS

by Dan Bacher

Letter To Barbara Boxer

On November 5, a coalition of Native American and environmental leaders sent a letter to Senator Barbara Boxer urging her to exclude a provision to enlarge Shasta Dam from…

The Man Who Made Standing On Sacred Ground

Sacred places are the oldest form of protected areas on the planet. In my interview with filmmaker, Christopher McLeod we talked about the importance of sacred places to indigenous cultures and the message his documentary series Standing on Sacred Ground has for EuroAmerican culture, the California drought and the Alberta oilsands.

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Behind Standing on Sacred Ground

Connections And Climate Change

By Roy L Hales

Christopher McLeod was disturbed by the environmental injustice. He saw Native Americans subjected to airborne coal pollution, and their water being taken for slurry lines. The Hopi elders told him there was a spiritual side to the injustice. These violations were taking place within a network of sacred places that their people had preserved for…