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Palukyla Sacred Grove Hill

Palukyla Sacred Grove Hill

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In February 2005, a joint worship of Indians and native Estonians took place in Rapla Parish on the Paluküla sacred grove hill. The holy performance was lead by a Lakota worship leader Aloysius Weasel Bear. For the protection of the sacred grove hill and to clarify the minds of the people the gods and protective spirits of both the Native Americans and native Estonians were addressed in chanting and in speaking. Also some moderate gifts were presented to them. The customs of different nations were twined in prayer for the joint aim.

In the early hours on Monday, November 08, some twenty or thirty Native Estonians gathered on the historical sacred grove hill in Paluküla, in Rapla County, Estonia, to protect and defend our ancestors' sacred hill. The people set up a conical tent and hindered the start of the ski centre construction work by singing songs and just being there. The landowner summoned the police force but the conflict was prevented and after the negotiations a peaceful solution was found. The protestors agreed to take down the conical tent on the condition that all the construction equipment and machines would be taken away from the hill and the start of the construction work would be postponed.