Explore additional websites, articles, videos, books and other resources related to Native American sacred trees, rocks and rock art, ceremonial landscapes and other sacred places. To add resources to this list, email NASTaPDrJefferson@gmail.com.

 

Resources for Culturally Modified Trees

 

Websites and social media pages

 

• Georgia Mountain Stewards website

• Native American Culturally Modified Trees/Prayer Trees Facebook page

• Mystery Trees Facebook page

• Ancient and Sacred Trees of America Facebook page
• Texas Trail Trees web page
• The Sacred Science blog
• Dowsing Indian Culture website
• Rocky Mountain Tree-Ring Research’s Old List
• Talking Trees YouTube playlist
• Cherokee Marker Tree in Holliday, Texas

 

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Articles

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• "Indian Trail Trees in the Appalachian History,"quoting “Indian Trail Trees,” by Raymond E. Janssen, American Forests magazine, July 1934, from Laura Hubler/Dorothy Moore Archives at The Arkansas Folk Museum
• "Trail-Marker Trees"
• "Mysteries of the Trail-Marker Trees" published by the Illinois Steward
• "Mysterious Bent Trees Are Actually Native American Trail Markers"
• "Cryptoforestry: The Forest Made Human: The Legacy of Trail Trees"
• "The Trees Along the Trail of Tears -Why Are They Twisted Into Strange Shapes?"
• "Rare Native American Trail Trees Carry Mysterious Messages From the Past"
• "Making It's Mark: Comanche Nation Recognizes Indian Marker Tree"
• “If You Come Across A Bent Tree In The Forest, Start Looking Around Immediately”
• “Pointing The Way.” Bent Trees Guided Cherokee Over Ancient Trails"
• "Ever Seen Trees Like This in Texas? Here’s What They Mean"
• "Trail Trees Along The Old Spanish Trail"
• "Trail Trees"
• "Trees' History, Meaning Taking Shape"

• "Field Guide to Old Ponderosa Pines in the Colorado Front Range"

• “The Mystery of Appalachia’s “Crooked Trees”

• “Tree of Peace and Treaty Trees”

• "Native American Tree Symbols"

• "Sacred Medicine Trees of North America"

• "Altered Trees," The Santa Fe New Mexican

• "Sacred Trees," Eldorado Living Facebook membership required

 

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Books

• Colorado Anomalies - Ley Lines, Earth Mysteries, or Cosmic Coincidence by Jeanne Gripp

• Indian Trail Trees by Elaine Blohm Jordan

• Talking Trees & Spirit Trails: New York State Native American Trail Trees by Carl Andrew Koehler

• Ute Indian Prayer Trees of the Pikes Peak Region by John Anderson

• Native American Prayer Trees of Colorado by John Anderson

 

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Resources for Ceremonial Landscapes and Sacred Places

• Arborglyphs Facebook page

• Celebrating the Ceremonial Stone Landscapes of Eastern North America Facebook page

• Colorado Archeological Society Facebook page

• In-Sites: Pre-Columbian architecture of the Americas Facebook page

• Petroglyphs Facebook page

• Waking Up in Turtle Island blog

• How To Find True North Without A Compass video