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Sacred Lands Protection Coalition

Every year, sacred sites that are integral to the practice of Indian religions are being destroyed. Legal remedies often are ineffectively implemented and provide limited legal redress to aggrieved traditional practioners and tribes.

NCAI Resolution #SPO-01-162 calls for the creation of a Sacred Lands Protection Coalition (SLPC) to be coordinated by NCAI in collaboration with the Seventh Generation Fund, the Native American Rights Fund, and the Association on American Indian Affairs. The SLPC will play a key role in efforts to strengthen legal protections for sacred sites and to secure administrative accomodations for the use of sacred places by Indian religious practioners. The coalition will focus on education, consultation, and legislation. NCAI is currently working to identify tribal leaders and traditional practioners who are willing to take a lead in building a coalition in this critical area.

• SCIA Holds Sacred Lands Protection Hearing (Broadcast Fax #02-042, 6/6/02)
• Protection of American Indian Sacred Lands Topic of Media Briefing (NCAI Press Release, 5/31/02)
• Sacred Lands Protection Oversight Hearing Scheduled for June 4 (Broadcast Fax #02-035, 05/14/02)
• SLPC Update - April 5, 2002
• Draft Agenda for SLPC Forum
• March 19, 2002, SLPC Organizational Meeting Information
• Press Release on March 20 Film Screening and Public Forum

Documents

• U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Publishes Procedures for Official Insignia Database, Legislative Update #379, 09/06/01
• NCAI Appoints New Commissioners for Repatriation and Burial Sites Protection Commission, 03/15/00
• NCAI Letter to the NAGPRA Review Committee Regarding Draft Principles of Agreement Regarding the Disposition of Culturally Unidentifiable Human Remains, 09/02/99
• NCAI Testimony, Senate Indian Affairs Committee Hearing on NAGPRA Implementation, 04/20/99
• Army Continues to Parade Wounded Knee "Battle" Streamer
• NCAI Testimony, House Resources Committee Hearing on NAGPRA Amendments (H.R. 2893), 06/10/98
• Text of Executive Order on Indian Sacred Sites, 05/27/96

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