Category: Saved Sites

  • Miami Circle

    [Back to List of Saved Sites] Photo: Eduardo Valle Location: Miami, Florida, USA Who Considers it Sacred? Native Americans (Taino, Tekesta, Huichol, and Seminole tribes, and others) Significance: Pre-Columbian historic and sacred site. It’s estimated that the Miami Circle was built about 2000 years ago. Some sort of structure was built leaving the remains of…

  • Ocmulgee Old Fields

    [Back to List of Saved Sites] The Earth Lodge by Deborah Vess Location: Macon, Georgia, USA Who Considers it Sacred? Native Americans (Creek/Muscogee tribe) Significance: The Muscogee consider this their place of origin; many mounds, ceremonial squares, and burial mounds are located here. The chiefs of the tribes of the Confederacy exempted the Ocmulgee Old…

  • Nine Mile Canyon

    [Back to List of Saved Sites] Photo: Tricia Simpson Location: Price, Utah, USA Who Considers it Sacred? Native Americans Photo: Scott Catron Significance: According to Nine Mile Canyon Guide and Information, “Some of the most spectacular rock art in Utah is to be found in Nine Mile Canyon northeast of Price. The canyon is actually…

  • San Bruno Mountain

    [Back to List of Saved Sites] Photo: Derrick Coetzee Location: San Bruno, California, USA Who Considers it Sacred? Native Americans (Ohlone tribe) Significance: The remains of sacred Ohlone burial sites and villages are on Mount San Bruno. Ohlone Indians lived traditionally on Mount San Bruno until the late 1700s, when Spanish missionaries began to remove…

  • Medicine Lake Highlands

    [Back to List of Saved Sites] Photo: Daniel Mayer Location: California, USA (near Mount Shasta) Official Listing: a Traditional Cultural District, 1999 Who Considers it Sacred? Native Americans (Ahjumawi/ Pit River, Modoc, Shasta, and other tribes) Significance: This site is a healing, prayer and vision quest center for the Native Americans. The site has been…

  • Mount Shasta

    [Back to List of Saved Sites] Location: Northern California, USA Who Considers it Sacred? Native Americans (Shasta, Pit River, Wintu, Karuk, and Modoc Nations) Significance: Regarded by the Shasta Nation as the birthplace of the Earth. The Threat: Commercial and industrial development Preservation Status: In 1994, “Sacred Sites International Foundation was listed as an interested…