Sacred Sites Protection and Rights of Indigenous Tribes (SSP&RIT) is an organization of Indigenous and Earth Peoples dedicated to preserving traditional Native American cultural and spiritual freedom. This mission includes the protection of Sacred Sites and Places (cemeteries and churches), preserving the right to practice traditional spiritual (religious) ceremonies, and respect for the traditional cultural customs (behavior) of Native Americans. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWKvKNUvZIY&t=13s
SSP&RIT Objectives:
We promote respect for the Indigenous Peoples that lessen community tensions through community involvement, and charitable assistance programs. We support the endeavors of all Indigenous Peoples to maintain their sovereignty as individual Clans, Bands, Tribes, and Nations. We give this support through information networking, resolutions of support, attending tribal ceremonies and gatherings and inclusion to our presentations. We champion the traditional ways of Indigenous Peoples and the spiritual freedom of all Earth Peoples through the conduct of our daily lives. We petition governments with grievances to the violation of the human and civil rights of Indigenous People and desecration of Sacred Sites. We speak out against legislation that violates the sovereign rights of Indigenous People. We educate members of the community the public of the moral and legal obligation to preserve and protect Sacred Sites and Places and to uphold the civil and human rights of all Indigenous Peoples through seminars, workshops, discussion groups and participation to eliminate discrimination and prejudice against Indigenous Peoples. To learn more about SSP&RIT, please visit:
http://www.ProtectGlenCove.org/about/about-ssprit
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Indian People Organizing for Change (IPOC) is a community-based organization in the San Francisco Bay Area. Its members, including Ohlone tribal members and conservation activists, work together in order to accomplish social and environmental justice within the Bay Area American Indian community. Projects include the preservation of Bay Area shellmounds, which are the sacred burial sites of the Ohlone Nation, whose homeland is the San Francisco Bay Area. Currently, IPOC has spread awareness throughout the community through shellmounds walks and has advocated for the preservation of sacred burial sites in the Emeryville Mall, Glen Cove, Hunters Point in San Francisco, and beyond. To learn more about IPOC, please visit:
http://www.IPOCshellmoundwalk.homestead.com
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Around the world there are thousands of places regarded as sacred. Some are still carefully guarded by indigenous people and are sites of secret ceremony and prayer. Some are national shrines known to millions. These holy sites emanate a magnetic force that draws people from far away, though the journey is frequently made only in imagination. View Index of Sacred Sites:
http://www.SacredLand.org/home/resources/sacred-site-reports
http://www.ssprit.wordpress.com
