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NARF and Sacred Sites
June 21, 2018 @ 7:00 am - 8:00 am
National Day of Prayer for the Protection of
Native American Sacred Places
Native American Rights Fund
1506 Broadway Boulder CO
Today, June 21, 2018 at 7:00 am (or wherever you are. Point added)
Please show your support for the protection of sacred places. NARF is conducting a sunrise ceremony that today at 7:00 am mountain time on the front lawn of the Native American Rights Fund (NARF) in Boulder, Colorado.
Speakers will include Native elders and spiritual leaders as well as NARF attorneys involved in sacred places work. Speakers will be followed by a moment of silence in honor of the many sacred places that are being threatened, damaged, and destroyed today. The program will last about one hour and will be followed by a potluck breakfast. We ask you to please bring food and/or beverages to share at the completion of the program. Sharing of nourishment together is part of the ceremony. (You can do similar in your time zone and share thoughts as your enjoy your morning breakfast.)
As part of its mission, the Native American Rights Fund has long advocated for sacred site protection, religious freedom efforts, and cultural rights. NARF has expanded its efforts to protect sacred places, lands that are sacred and precious to Native Americans, such as Bears Ears National Monument. Morning Star Institute President Suzan Shown Harjo (Cheyenne and Hodulgee Muscogee), NARF’s partner on this issue and a national leader in the protection of sacred places, explains, “Native and non-Native people gather at the Solstice time for ceremonies and events to honor sacred places, and to show support for protecting them. Observances are necessary because Native Peoples are engaged in myriad struggles with developers that endanger or destroy Native sacred places.”