Is This Ignorance Or Malice, You Decide
Recently there have been two places of Native American Cultural significance,
or to us, Sacred Places, that have been abused by Non Native people,
representing the U.S. Forest Service.
One was in the Deep South, in Georgia, the other in the Far West, in California.
The thing that these two events have in common, is a seemingly complete lack of respect
or awareness, of just how important these places were and are to Native People.
I have personally seen this kind of shameful lack of respect for our Sacred Places,
while attending a Celebration Event at the Natchez Sacred Mounds in Louisiana.
For longer that I care to remember, I watched in total shock while people,
who did not appear to be Natives, both adults and children, played a game
of football on the top of the Sacred Mounds.
No one in the area who saw this happen, seemed to find anything wrong with this
and this is a memory that I cannot ever forget.
Standing together has never been one of our strengths, but if we as a People, as a race,
do not join hands across this country, these Sacred Places, as well as our very being,
may soon become like the dust blowing in the wind.
If you are able, please write, call, blog, do something, do anything, just get involved,
but please, please, do not ignore these things.
It is never going to stop unless and until, we as a People stop it.
My ancestors, your ancestors, are watching and waiting for us to unite and
once again become the strong, proud, First People of this Country.
We cannot remain silent anymore.
US Forest Service Employees Vandalize Native American Town
Armed Agent Desecrate Sacred Fires
Inserted from
http://www.sachem-uncas.com/blog.html
http://www.examiner.com/article/u-s-forest-service-employees-vandalize-native-american-town-site
Recently there have been two places of Native American Cultural significance,
or to us, Sacred Places, that have been abused by Non Native people,
representing the U.S. Forest Service.
One was in the Deep South, in Georgia, the other in the Far West, in California.
The thing that these two events have in common, is a seemingly complete lack of respect
or awareness, of just how important these places were and are to Native People.
I have personally seen this kind of shameful lack of respect for our Sacred Places,
while attending a Celebration Event at the Natchez Sacred Mounds in Louisiana.
For longer that I care to remember, I watched in total shock while people,
who did not appear to be Natives, both adults and children, played a game
of football on the top of the Sacred Mounds.
No one in the area who saw this happen, seemed to find anything wrong with this
and this is a memory that I cannot ever forget.
Standing together has never been one of our strengths, but if we as a People, as a race,
do not join hands across this country, these Sacred Places, as well as our very being,
may soon become like the dust blowing in the wind.
If you are able, please write, call, blog, do something, do anything, just get involved,
but please, please, do not ignore these things.
It is never going to stop unless and until, we as a People stop it.
My ancestors, your ancestors, are watching and waiting for us to unite and
once again become the strong, proud, First People of this Country.
We cannot remain silent anymore.
US Forest Service Employees Vandalize Native American Town
Armed Agent Desecrate Sacred Fires
Inserted from
http://www.sachem-uncas.com/blog.html
http://www.examiner.com/article/u-s-forest-service-employees-vandalize-native-american-town-site
"they had obviously dropped the ball."
Violation of federal laws
The United States Forestry Service must comply with
the laws of the United States.
The American Indian Religious Freedom Act (Public Law
95-341, 42 U.S.C. 1996 and 1996a) Guarantee the right of all Native Americans
to visit Native American sacred sites. Stiff fines and/or jail time is
associated with some of these laws.
Federal law (18 USC 1361) makes it illegal to steal or
damage any property of the federal government and establishes provisions for
fines and imprisonment, timber found on federal land, in turn, is protected by
a section of the criminal code labeled 18 U.S.C. §§ 1852-56.
Federal code known as 16 USC 470aa-470mm establishes
civil and criminal penalties for the destruction or alteration of cultural
resources.
