Indigenous religions
Religious Leaders Unite to Protect Apache Sacred Site
On October 16, the day after Indigenous Peoples Day 2024, the Presbyterian Church (USA), Mennonite Church USA, and Lipan Native American Church submitted a friend of…
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Indigenous religions
Catholicism
“A Message That We Didn’t Matter”—Diocese’s Removal of Apache-Themed Icons Stirs Old Outrages
Under the half moon, the community gathered, dancing to drumbeats and chanting around a fire. In the circle, dressed in traditional buckskin, two native girls, now…
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Oak Flat and the Fight for Sacred Ground
In Tonto National Forest, in the rolling hills near Devil’s Canyon east of Phoenix, Arizona, the sacred Native American grounds of Oak Flat have been embroiled…