Great Smoky National Park team was proud to support this effort to officially restore the mountain and to recognize its ...

After years of efforts to change the name of Clingmans Dome back to its Cherokee name, the highest peak in the Smokies is ...

It marks the first time an Andean country has hosted an international congress and coincides with the 150th anniversary of the consecration of Ecuador to the Sacred Heart of Jesus made in 1874.

The story broke just 16 days after The Assembly reported that half a dozen ex-porn-shop employees in Robinson’s hometown of ...

Kuwohi, which translates to “mulberry place” in Cherokee, replaces Clingmans Dome, a name that honored Thomas Clingman, an ...

I’m standing at an Indigenous sacred site, looking at something I’m not ... non-Natives appropriating Indigenous worship. Or worse: Western scientists destroying ancestral remains for anthropo ...

Contested sacred sites such as the Temple Mount, the Church of the Holy Sepulchre and the Western Wall present immense challenges for any government that attempts to maintain both social order and ...

When planning a trip, people often visit places with religious significance at their destinations or plan trips specifically as religious pilgrimages. From the holy city of the Vatican to the sacred ...

I’m standing at an Indigenous sacred site, looking at something I’m not supposed to see. Signs of ceremony are all around: little animal skulls, ribbons, a stump of freshly burnt sage stems in ashes, ...

The Muscogee Creek Nation on Wednesday argued for its right to repatriate the remains of ancestors and protect a sacred site in Alabama that is now home to the Wind Creek Casino. “Hickory Ground ...