Swamp Cedars and Remembering Rupert Steele
Swamp Cedars National Monument (Bahsahwahbee). Help by signing the Petition and remember Chairman Steele's long journey to protect and...
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montesanford
- Apr 26
- 1 min
Bahsahwahbee Swamp Cedars National Monument Update
Today, U.S. Senators Jacky Rosen (D-NV) and Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV) sent a letter to Interior Secretary Deb Haaland urging the...
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montesanford
- Oct 20, 2021
- 1 min
Dr. Monte Sanford's work featured in National Geographic Travel
Monte Sanford has been working on behalf of the Goshute and Western Shoshone tribes to protect Bahsahwahbee. While he has worked for the...
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montesanford
- Aug 6, 2021
- 1 min
The Water Festival
This mountain path looks across the Jinsha River at Jade Dragon Snow Mountain. I miss it there. Years ago, I ventured into Yunnan and...
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montesanford
- Jun 7, 2021
- 1 min
Tribes and Church team up to protect water and Swamp Cedars
I thought this new article offered an interesting angle on the Tribes fight to protect the Swamp Cedars Sacred Site from being destroyed...
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montesanford
- Jun 1, 2021
- 1 min
Nevada Law Protects Bahsahwahbee
I'm happy to be a part of the effort to continue our fight to protect the Bahsahwahbee sacred site for the Confederated Goshute Tribes....
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montesanford
- Apr 21, 2021
- 5 min
American Paradise and the Land of Opportunity, or Blundering
America was a sacred paradise, a Garden of Eden, a real live Heaven on Earth. Even Christopher Columbus thought so when he sailed into...
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montesanford
- Mar 24, 2021
- 1 min
Swamp Cedars Protection Bill Heard By Nevada Legislative Committee
Long overdue, a Nevada legislative committee on March 15 considered protections for sacred trees to indigenous people. These trees are...
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montesanford
- Mar 24, 2021
- 2 min
Protecting Indigenous Sacred Sites
Recently, I was asked why so many Native American sacred sites are not protected. That's a complicated matter. But the simple answer is...
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montesanford
- Mar 24, 2021
- 2 min
Bahsahwahbee and a Monumental Win for the Tribes
It may be the win of a century. A $15-billion-dollar Las Vegas water development project went up against the poverty-stricken Goshute and...
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montesanford
- Mar 24, 2021
- 1 min
On the Mountain of Fire
Years ago when I was in Indonesia exploring ancient temples and pilgrimage sites, there was not a shortage of people pointing and...
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montesanford
- Mar 24, 2021
- 1 min
Bahsahwahbee protected from SNWA water grab
It's a great day for the Goshute and Western Shoshone. Maybe even a great day for all people who hold sacred those places where we carry...
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montesanford
- Mar 24, 2021
- 1 min
A Journey Into Tiger Leaping Gorge
I didn't know what I was getting myself into when I elected to hike through Tiger Leaping Gorge on the old Southwest Silk Road. We...
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montesanford
- Mar 24, 2021
- 1 min
The Naxi People of Yunnan
The Naxi people of Yunnan, China, have the only hieroglyphic language that is still being used today. If you want to learn their...
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montesanford
- Mar 24, 2021
- 2 min
On the Origins of Globalization
Globalization has been chugging along for 2 million years. Humans migrated out of Africa and the Middle East, looking for greener...
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montesanford
- Mar 24, 2021
- 3 min
America's Original Sin
We've been hearing about the "original sin" of this country. The original sin was wrapped up in a mess of insanity and delusion. Let's...
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