Help Save Mauna Kea from the Astronomy Industry
Many if not all indigenous peoples treasure sacred places - areas of the natural world in which the people live, which provide special meaning, refuge, and succor. Sacred places often serve as locations for (embodiments of, even) rites and rituals that strengthen the cultures of the people who value these places, and which serve as critical venues for cultivating their individual and collective identities. In some ways, the indigenous peoples are those places, and those places are the people. ...