Among the many responsibilities the federal government has to Indian tribes is the protection of their sacred sites. Federal lands include many such places but there are also a great many sacred places on state, local, and private lands. This paper is intended to inform non-federal land managers and owners that there are sites that Indian tribes hold to be sacred and that are of central importance to the maintenance of their cultures. Protection of sacred sites is of such significance to indigenous peoples that it is included in the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
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