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When sacred spaces are physically destroyed or inaccessible

The mining company destroyed the mountain where my people have gone for vision quests for generations, and I don't know where to take my nephew for his initiation rite.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The desecration of holy places severs the umbilical cord between spiritual practice and the land that gives it meaning.

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