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Indigenous sacred sites in United States
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Spanish Peaks, Colorado
Walsenburg, Colorado, United States
Rising seven thousand feet above the Colorado plains, the Spanish Peaks emerge as twin sentinels at the threshold between prairie and mountain....
Spirit Mountain, Nevada
Laughlin, Nevada, United States
Rising from the Mojave Desert in southern Nevada, a white granite peak holds the origin of worlds....
Spiro Mounds State Park
Spiro, Oklahoma, United States
Between 850 and 1450 CE, Spiro Mounds served as one of four great ceremonial centers of the Mississippian world....
Stone Mountain, Georgia
Stone Mountain, Georgia, United States
Stone Mountain rises 825 feet above the Georgia Piedmont, a massive quartz monzonite monadnock that dominated the horizon for the Muscogee Creek and Cherokee who held it...
Superstition Mountains, Arizona
Apache Junction, Arizona, United States
The Superstition Mountains east of Phoenix hold sacred significance for three Indigenous peoples....
Sweet Grass Hills, Montana
Whitlash, Montana, United States
Rising more than 3,000 feet above the Montana prairie, the Sweet Grass Hills hold a distinctive place in Native American sacred geography: this is where the Sun Dance was...
Tamanowas Rock Santuary, Washington
Port Townsend, Washington, United States
A 150-foot volcanic monolith rising from Olympic Peninsula forest, Tamanowas Rock has served Coast Salish peoples as a place of vision quests and sacred ceremony for over...
Taos Pueblo
Taos, New Mexico, United States
Taos Pueblo is not a museum, not a reconstruction, not a relic. It is a community....
Tecate Peak, California
Tecate, California, United States
Tecate Peak, known to the Kumeyaay as Kuuchamaa, 'The Exalted High Place,' stands among the most sacred sites of the Kumeyaay people....
Tolay Lake
Sonoma County, California, United States
For at least four thousand years, medicine people traveled from across what is now the western United States—and as far as Mexico—to gather at Tolay Lake....
Truchas Peak, New Mexico
Mora County, New Mexico, United States
Truchas Peak rises to 13,102 feet in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, the second highest point in New Mexico....
Two Medicine Lake, Montana
East Glacier Park, Montana, United States
At Two Medicine Lake, you stand within what the Blackfeet call Miistakis—the Backbone of the World. This is not metaphor....
Wallowa Lake, Oregon
Joseph, Oregon, United States
At the foot of Oregon's Wallowa Mountains, a glacial lake holds the heart of Nez Perce homeland....
White Sands, New Mexico
Otero County, New Mexico, United States
White Sands rises as the largest gypsum dune field on Earth, 275 square miles of brilliant white undulation that visitors describe as stepping onto another planet....
Wind Cave, South Dakota
Hot Springs, South Dakota, United States
Deep in the Black Hills, Wind Cave holds the most sacred story of the Lakota people: this is where humanity emerged from the spirit world into the physical world....
Wizard Island, Crater Lake, Oregon
Klamath County, Oregon, United States
Wizard Island rises from the impossible blue of Crater Lake, a volcanic cinder cone within a caldera formed when Mount Mazama collapsed 7,700 years ago....
Zion National Park
Springdale, Utah, United States
For over eight centuries, the Southern Paiute have known these canyon walls as sacred homeland, a landscape alive with spiritual power they call Puha....
Zuni Lake, New Mexico
Catron County, New Mexico, United States
Zuni Salt Lake is a volcanic maar in the high desert of western New Mexico, sixty miles south of Zuni Pueblo....
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