An exception was made for those who had ancestral sites and graves within the park.

South of Moab, ancestral Puebloan sites are scattered among wilderness areas and parks, most notably Monument Valley, which extends into Arizona.

In 2009, Ali visited Ennis, the ancestral site of his great-grandfather before he emigrated to the U.S. in the 1860s, before eventually settling in Kentucky.

When the university tried to expand to accommodate an undergraduate program it met resistance from environmentalists seeking to protect the Chumash ancestral site and the wilderness terrain.

Believing the cliff dwellings to be sacred ancestral sites, they did not live in the ancient dwellings.

The hill is an ancestral site of the Ngati Oneone hapū (sub-tribe) in Gisborne.

The Batwa fished, harvested wild yams, wild honey and their ancestral sites were located in the park.

And at Mesa Verde National Park, nestled into the crook of the Four Corners, it comes with a surreal edge: snowshoeing in the desert, among ancestral Puebloan sites.

The Hopi and Navajo Nations have joined in litigation aimed at protecting the cedar trees and sacred ancestral sites on Cedar Mesa.

Stonewall Jackson's ancestral site is at Waugh's Farm, The Birches (Jackson also had roots in Coleraine, County Londonderry).