Tongva Burials Threatened in Downtown L.A.- Take 5 minutes of your day to help!

facebook Aim Santa Barbara sent a message to the members of American Indian Movement Santa Barbara. Aim Santa BarbaraJanuary 5, 2011 at 5:11pm Subject: Tongva Burials Threatened in Downtown L.A.- Take 5 minutes of your day to help! http://www.facebook.com/?sk=messages#!/notes/angela-mooney-darcy/tongva-burials-threatened-in-downtown-la/478251448298 It only takes 5 minutes! 5 minutes to make a phone call and do something good- save a sacred site- and piss off the people that need to put in check- STOP THE DESECRATION ________________________________________________________________________ Tongva Burials Threatened in Downtown L.A. by Angela Mooney D'Arcy on Wednesday, January 5, 2011 at 6:06am Tongva Burials Threatened...from Tongva member Cindi Alvitre— "We have some very sad news...there is ongoing desecration of graves going on at the L A Plaza (Olvera Street)...it's never f****in ends. As the New Mexican cultural center is being put in our relatives are being literally yanked out of the ground! We seek support!! The Native American Heritage Commission has been involved in this with little cooperation from the Los Angeles County Coroner. The forensic anthropologist claims that these are no Indian burials, although burial goods reveal otherwise— close to 100 burials impacted to date!!! “...it's about respect of all people. This cemetery is not limited just to native people, and destroying a massive cemetery in a historic district to put in a fountain for a NEW cultural institute is obscene.”

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