What Land Is Sacred to You?

Do you consider the land where you and your community live to be sacred ground? Have you travelled to find sacred lands: the lands where your ancestors once lived, pilgrimage routes, or sacred monuments around the world? How do you know land is sacred? How does it affect you?

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Standing on Sacred Ground

This film clip is from the "Pilgrims and Tourists" episode of the four-part series Standing on Sacred Ground, which is part of the Sacred Land Film Project from Toby McCleod and the Earth Island…

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Voices from Bears Ears: the Images of Photographer Stephen E. Strom

On December 4, 2017, President Trump declared a drastic reduction of Utah’s Bears Ears and Grand Staircase Escalante National Monuments. This is the largest elimination of protected land in American…

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Healing Wounded Warriors on Sacred Ground

This short film tells the story of The Green Road project; the result of a years-long effort to create a therapeutic nature space on the grounds of the National Military…

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Recommended Reading: Sacred Ground

Voices From Bear Ears: Seeking Common Ground on Sacred Land by Rebecca M. Robinson, Photography by Stephen Strom

Pagan’s Progress: A Ge-Ography Primer by Michael Dames

Atlas of a Lost World by Craig Childs

The Little Island by Margaret Wise Brown (Children’s book)

The Outrun: A Memoir by Amy Liptrot

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