Native American Burial Ground Quietly Destroyed for Million Dollar Houses
A 4,500-year-old American Indian burial ground—one of the richest and best preserved found in California in the past century—has been paved over for a multimillion dollar housing development in the Bay Area.
But the whole situation is more complicated than archeologists versus developers. The remains have since been reburied according to the wishes of the Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria, the most likely descendants of the area’s indigenous people. The tribe was not keen on turning the burial ground into an archeological site. “How would Jewish or Christian people feel if we wanted to dig up skeletal remains in a cemetery and study them? Nobody has that right,” a chairman for the tribe said to the Chronicle.
WHY ARE YOU BUILDING HOUSES ON A NATIVE BURIAL GROUND?? THIS IS SO MORALLY FUCKED UP AND GROSS I HOPE THE LAND DEVELOPERS GET HELLA CURSED
