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  Native American Cultural Landscapes Study Group

Founded in 2009 to research and protect Native American sacred landscapes and ceremonial sites

Mission Statement

NACLSG is a forum to bring together amateurs, professionals, Native Americans and others focused on researching and preserving North American ritual sites.  By uniting the growing number of individuals working in this field, across widely separated distances, all can benefit from a sharing of observations and interpretations.  NACLSG is open to all who desire to identify, study and protect Native sacred sites.

Components of Native American ritual sites include natural landscape features (such as springs, caves and mountains), earthen mounds of various sizes and configurations, as well as a wide variety of stone constructions.  The latter include cairns, walls, standing stones, effigies, chambers, wells, propped boulders, etc.  Too often dismissed as agricultural or other products of the hands of post-Columbian settlers, Native American ritual sites are in dire need of protection.  These sites are routinely described as "enigmatic" or "mysterious."  They are only a mystery to those unaware of numerous examples scattered across the landscape.

Our focus is primarily on those Native American ceremonial sites dating from the pre-Columbian period.

We are focused on sites in North America.

Native American cultural landscapes are threatened by both neglect and development pressures.  There is a profound need to both identify and protect the massive number of such sites spread across the North American continent to insure their preservation for future generations.

 

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