PRAYER VIGIL, FASTING AND PRAYER FOR RETURN OF NATIVE AMERICAN REMAINS FOR REBURIAL AT UC -BERKELEY

BERKELEY,CA- Jun San, a Nipponzan Myohoji Buddhist nun, fasting and praying in front of the Hearst Museum located at the University of California Berkeley; as she will spend the first 4 days in December in prayer and fasting for the return of the 13,000 ancestrial remains that sit in lockers and boxes at the museum.

Her vigil calls attention to the sketetal remains and funerary objects of some 10,00 ancient burials removed from San Francisco and San Pablo Bay shore shellmounds and other sites over the Bay Area. They are held by the Hearst Museum of Anthropology. This vigil calls for the Federal recognition of the Ohlone Nation and the return of the remains for prpoer burial.

The 5-day Prayer and Fast Vigil continues from 8am to 5pm. Please make your views on Ancestral Native remains known to UC Berkeley Chancellor Birgeneau : chancellor@berkeley.edu or phone his office at 510/ 642-7464.


UPDATE ALERT!!! Vallejo Intertribal Council is asking Indian Country to please call the California Indian Legal Aid Services in Sacramento, CA to please give legal help to stop the physical desecration and destruction to the the 4000 year Shellmound at the Glen Cove Water Front Park located in Vallejo, CA. Please call the CILAS at 916/ 978-0960 http://www.teachingthevaluesofpeace.blogspot.com