INDIGENOUS RIGHTS:  As Native people, we have a constitutional right to the freedom of our religions, belief systems, and traditional ways of life. Yet our struggle seems to never end.

Now federal land management laws are failing to honor that right, and have failed to honor our spiritual and cultural connections to our homelands.

That’s why we’re supporting the Tribal Cultural Areas Protection Act, which would establish a national system of culturally significant sites on public lands, empower Tribal Nations to co-manage our cultural areas on public lands, and prohibit mining and other harmful forms of development.

Please sign now to send a message to your members of Congress: Pass the Tribal Cultural Areas Protection Act to honor Tribal Nations’ sovereign right to protect, co-manage, and prevent the further degradation of our sacred places.

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The vast majority of federal lands are carved out of the ancestral homelands of Tribal Nations. Despite forced removal and displacement, Native peoples’ cultural connections to these places have never been extinguished.

Federal land management laws are failing to protect sacred sites and Native land, resulting in desecration and harm.

We’re calling on Congress to pass this important legislation to protect places of cultural and traditional significance -- places of Indigenous foods, medicines, ceremony, burial sites, and creation stories.

The Tribal Cultural Areas Protection Act would ensure that Indigenous communities are included in decision-making on the fate, management, and stewardship of our sacred places. It would strengthen Tribal Nations’ inherent and legal right to govern themselves.

Please send a message to your members of Congress: Protect Native sacred places and Tribal sovereignty by passing the Tribal Cultural Areas Protection Act now.

Link: https://actionnetwork.org/letters/pass-the-tribal-cultural-areas-protection-act

via - Native Organizers Alliance