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  • Natural CommunitiesThis section honors our native plants and animals and the diverse and beautiful habitats in which they live. It includes an article on Drawing the Natural Gardens of North Carolina and selected illustrations of mountain, piedmont, and coastal plain habitats. I hope these drawings of the sacred natural communities where I live will inspire you to savor the wild lands where you live and help to conserve them.
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Effigy Mounds

Sacred Landscape: Native American Effigy Mounds
13 Oct 2019

Sacred Landscape: Native American Effigy Mounds

by Betty Lou Chaika | posted in: Pilgrimage Stories | 14

Our souls, to truly thrive, need whole, intact landscapes, even sacredscapes, lands that are revered and ceremonially marked as sacred. On this Indigenous People’s Day I want to honor an aspect of our First People’s heritage — the earth-based spirituality … Continued

ancestors, Animal Spirits, Effigy Mounds, Indigenous People's Day, Native Americans, Sacred Landscape

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