In September 2013, a group of nearly 80 conference participants from 12 different countries and 7 different Indigenous Peoples developed a statement Conference Statement and Recommendations on: “Recognition and Safeguarding of the Sacred Sites of Indigenous Peoples in Northern and Arctic Regions”. The people involved were sacred site guardians of indigenous communities, indigenous peoples’ organizations, scientists, policy makers and members of civil society organisations. They gathered together in the capital of Finnish Lapland, Rovaniemi, as well as in Pyhätunturi, a sacred mountain of the ancient Forest Saami people. The reason for this gathering was the first international, multidisciplinary conference on Arctic sacred sites.