Ihumātao Sacred Site Bought By New Zealand Government For $30m

“This is a new low even for the Trump administration,” said Laiken Jordahl, a borderlands campaigner for the nonprofit Center for Biological Diversity in Arizona who has been documenting the altered landscape. The suit stalled and then in 2015, tribal members returned to court seeking remedies for the bulldozing and a declaration that their religious rights had been violated. As part of their traditions and spiritual beliefs, a lot of tribal people want to leave their sites pristine, said Barclay, director of Notre Dame’s Religious Liberty Initiative, which filed a friend-of-the-court brief supporting the https://plrblog.org/alexei-mordashov/ Apaches. In both cases, the tribes allege their rights under the First Amendment and the Religious Freedom Restoration Act were violated. The act bars the government from substantially burdening a person’s exercise of religion except in furtherance of a compelling governmental interest — and only if an action is the least restrictive means of furthering that interest. What it all boils down to for contractors, Poliakoff said, is that they should act in a responsible way when they come across artifacts or remains during the course of a construction project and report them to the appropriate agency.

In other cases, alternative uses for the same piece of land have to be considered, leading to trade-offs.
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In the landmark 1823 case Johnson v. M’Intosh, the Supreme Court ruled that Indigenous people could not sell land to private owners in the United States, because they did not own it.
The land reclamation project used a system of dikes and drainage canals, making Flevoland, at 970 square kilometres, the largest man-made island in the world.

The art of geomancy is concerned with the harmonic balance of yin and yang ï¿½ positive and negative earth energy. Exhaustive studies on the largest known Dragon line in Europe, the St. Michaelï¿½s ley, led by Hamish Miller have resulted in the proposition that it is composed of two energies, one flowing directly and the other coiling around it along its length. It seems then, that these additional connections between sites reflect a conscious effort at ï¿½sewingï¿½ the component parts of the landscape together into the larger living tapestry. Alignments of sacred and prominent places can be seen to reinforce each other like synapses as the spatial perception of the ritual landscape developed. And controversies around sacred sites are not just limited to Native American or indigenous ceremonial grounds. In Cincinnati, some groups are pushing back against the Port of Greater Cincinnati Development Authority’s and the FC Cincinnati soccer team’s intentions to demolish a 154-year old former synagogue in order to make way for the ancillary projects planned for a new $250 million stadium.

European Policy On Protected Areas

The concept of promoting international cooperation for the conservation and wise use of natural heritage has also gained appreciation since 1970’s, giving rise to international types of protected areas and networks like the Ramsar Wetlands of International Importance. Big Sandy is not the first battle the Hualapai have fought to protect sacred landscapes in this remote corner of Arizona, where wind turbines, gold mines and other private interests already have destroyed culturally important places — and it won’t be the last. The court ruled, in part, to avoid granting tribes broad control over their ancestral lands through the exercise of their religious freedom. Those rights do not divest the Government of its rights to use what is, after all, its land,” the ruling said. The U.S. Forest Service has withdrawn a final environmental impact statement that describes the potential effects of Resolution Copper’s planned operations on 2,422 acres of the Tonto National Forest that are to be swapped for 5,459 acres of conservation lands.

Mining For Lithium, At A Cost To Indigenous Religions

Of those, it said it would attempt to avoid one, which was eligible for protection under the National Historic Preservation Act. Meanwhile, in its publicly available environmental assessment, the agency stated that effects to Native American religious concerns or traditional values were “to be determined,” and that it was consulting with the Hualapai Tribe, among others. As of this writing, BLM staff had neither agreed to an interview nor responded to written questions from High Country News. In a tweet that has since been deleted, presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders expressed support for the Native Hawaiians protecting Mauna Kea. “We must guarantee native people’s right to self-determination and their right to protest,” he wrote.