Governmnet Managed Shrines: Protection of Native American Sacred Site Worship

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"Sacred places include mountains, lakes, piles of rocks, unusually-shaped mounds, middens, caves, burial grounds, rock art sites, ceremonial grounds, doctoring or training grounds... (ARLENE HIRSCHFELDER & PAULETTE MOLIN, THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF NATIVE AMERICAN RELiGIONS 251 (1992).)

http://scholar.valpo.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1320&context=vulr

"(Morro) Rock is a protected Native American shrine and home to endangered peregrine falcons.)

 http://wikitravel.org/en/Morro_Bay

http://srleebackyard.blogspot.com/2008/04/shrine-of-stone-lions.html

by Shawna Lee