Sacred sites and Rock Formations throughout Southern California's India Country are described by Indians as ancestral markers, origin and place-name locales, areas of deity habitation, and power sources. Early ethnographers were keen to record the traditional stories and meanings related to them by their Native collaborators. Rock formations represent a particularly compelling example of cultural landscapes--creating an important link between human beings, their ancestral past, and geographic location, something Native peoples of Southern California, and elsewhere, value highly. However, these rock formations and sacred sites are sometimes forgotten by the Indians themselves or purposefully concealed from the intrusions of ethnographers, curious trekkers, or vandals. Rock formations were then, as they are now, a part of the natural landscape. This article describes the collective effort of native Americans, anthropologist and ethnohistorians, and even government agencies to save the heritage site from the quarries of culture. (Contains 6 figures and 49 notes.)