INDIAN COUNTRY SACRED SITES ADVOCATES URGE MORE PROTECTION OF NATIVE SACRED SITES THROUGH OUT INDIAN COUNTRY
By Mike (Ali) Raccoon Eyes Kinney
BERKELEY, CA.- On Sunday November 20, 2009, Indian Country gathered at the La Pena Cultural Center for the ' 4th Annual Thangs Taken: Rethinking Thanksgiving ' program.
Nationally know Sacred Site Advocates Ann Marie Sayer (Ohlone), Corrina Gould (Ohlone) and the legendary Wounded Knee De O'Campo (Bay Me-Wuk) held discussions on U.C. Berkeley's Phobe Hearst Museum of Anthropolgy violations of NAGPRA and the terrible and horrific conditions of the 13,000 Ancestors and over 200,000 funerary objects that are being held illegal below a U.C. Berkeley gym.
A recent news video showed Ms. Sayer visiting the U.C. Berkeley site and the shocking conditions of where the Ancestors currently are.
Wounded Knee, a nationally known Sacred Sites Advocate of Vallejo Intertribal Council, talked about the physical desecration and destruction of a 4000 year Shellmound in the Glen Cove Waterfront Park in Vallejo, CA.
The City of Vallejo's Greater Vallejo Recreation District has palns to make the 15 acre Shellmound complex into an upscale waterfront park that sit on San Pablo Bay. The the Glen Cove Shellmound is over 4000 years old and is one of the last fully intact Shellmounds left in California
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