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How many laws are on the books to protect
Euro-American Grave Sites?
How many companies are allowed to plow
over, on, around and through Euro-American cemeteries?
Wal-Mart’s history of destroying sacred sites
last month, the 1,500-year-old sacred and
archaeologically significant site was partially demolished during a
taxpayer-funded economic development project, with the excavated dirt to be
used as fill for construction of a Sam’s Club, a retail warehouse store owned
by Wal-Mart.
National Parks
Conservation Association to place the monument among America’s most endangered
national parks.
federal laws
designed to protect sacred and archaeologically significant sites. They include
the American Indian Religious Freedom Act of 1978, the 1990 Native American
Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, President Clinton’s Executive Order on
Indian Sacred Sites, the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, the
Archaeological Resources Protection Act of 1979, and the National Environmental
Policy Act of 1969.
But a fact sheet on sacred sites [pdf]
prepared by the Morning Star Institute for the Coalition to Protect Native
American Sacred Places during 2002 hearings by the U.S. Senate Committee on
Indian Affairs points out there are no existing legal protections for certain
sacred places — and “none that provide a specific cause of action to defend
sacred places against desecration or destruction.”
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