If you read one article today, please make it this. washingtonpost.com/magazine/2021/…
"When the FBI left Miller’s house — 6 days after arriving — they had uncovered more than 2K bones, representing 500 human beings, & seized more than 7K items. Forensic anthropologists were able to determine that the bones primarily belonged to Native Americans."
"Federal land management agencies estimate that more than 1/3 of Native American sites on federally protected property have been emptied. Many of those sites were graves... 95% of Native American graves on public land in southwest Virginia have been pillaged."
"...this doesn’t begin to account for the graves on private property. The theft is so pervasive that there’s an active debate about whether to mark NA burials on public & tribal lands. Officials... worry that such markers act as an X on a proverbial treasure map."
"We have taken Native lands and tried to eradicate Indigenous societies, yet it’s not only what we’ve done to the living that is so deplorable. It’s what we’ve done, and continue to do, to the dead."
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