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  2. Recognition of Native American sacred sites in the United ...

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    Protesters at Sogorea Te (Glen Cove) on Day 98—Natives gain jurisdiction of sacred sites and ancestral lands. Glen Cove, also known as Sogorea Te or Ssogoréate, is located in Vallejo, California and is a ceremonial and burial ground for native tribes living near the area for over 3,500 years. [7]

  3. List of Native American archaeological sites on the National ...

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    This is a list of Native American archaeological sites on the National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania.. Historic sites in the United States qualify to be listed on the National Register of Historic Places by passing one or more of four different criteria; Criterion D permits the inclusion of proven and potential archaeological sites. [1]

  4. Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act

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    Equal Protection: Native Americans, as well as others, often found that the remains of Native American graves were treated differently from the dead of other races. First Amendment: As in most racial and social groups, Native American burial practices relate strongly to their religious beliefs and practices. They held that when tribal dead were ...

  5. List of burial mounds in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Craig Mound has been called "an American King Tut's Tomb". George C. Davis Mound C: Caddoan Mounds State Historic Site, Cherokee County, Texas: 800–1200 CE Caddoan Mississippian culture Mound C, the northernmost mound of the three at the site, it was used as a ceremonial burial mound, not for elite residences or temples like the other two. [12]

  6. Oheyawahi-Pilot Knob - Wikipedia

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    ' a sacred place much visited; the place where people go for burials ') is a scenic overlook, and a Native American gathering place and burial ground in Mendota Heights, Minnesota, United States. The overlook provides views of the confluence of the Minnesota and Mississippi Rivers , Fort Snelling , and the Minneapolis and St. Paul skylines. [ 2 ]

  7. List of Adena culture sites - Wikipedia

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    Mounds State Park: Mounds State Park is a state park in Anderson, Indiana, featuring prehistoric Native American heritage, and 10 ceremonial mounds built by the Adena culture people and also used by later Hopewell inhabitants. Mount Horeb Site 1: The center piece of the University of Kentuckys Adena Park in Fayette County, Kentucky.

  8. Shalawa Meadow - Wikipedia

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    In 1979 a Chumash elder began a movement to protect the sacred nature of the site, joined by surfers and some area residents. [ 8 ] A marker monument was built on the small remaining parcel near the southern (beach) approach to Shalawa Meadow with colorful inlaid ceramic tiles adorned with lizards, birds, flowers, and two bas-relief dolphins in ...

  9. Spiro Mounds - Wikipedia

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    The "Great Mortuary", as archaeologists called this hollow chamber, appears to have begun as a burial structure for Spiro's rulers. It was created as a circle of sacred cedar posts sunk in the ground and angled together at the top similarly to a tipi. The cone-shaped chamber was covered with layers of earth to create the mound, preventing collapse.