And now:Ish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.3 (32) >Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1998 21:36:56 -0500 >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], Ish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] >From: Ron & Eileen Stanford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Disturbance of Remains at Salt Mine irks Senecas > >Rochester Democrat and Chronicle Wednesday, December 23, 1998 > >Disturbance of Remains at Salt Mine irks Senecas > >� The company building the new facility in Livingston is uncooperative, >tribe says. > >BY STAFF WRITER >Matthew Daneman > >HAMPTON CORNERS� > > American Rock Salt Co. is doing little to avoid digging up or disturbing >human remains possibly buried at its Livingston County mine site, a group >of area Native Americans charge. > "We regard the remains to be sacred." Said G. Peter Jemison of the >Tonawanda Band of the Seneca Nation, based in Basom, Gennesee County. "When >construction like this comes along � we have to protect those remains." > Jemison said that the company, which is building a new salt mine off Route >63 south of Geneseo, has refused to follow suggestions made by the Seneca >Nation on ways to handle Native American remains likely buried on part of >the construction site. > "I don�t know if there�s a way to work it out ," Jemison said yesterday, >standing along Route 63 just yards from where workers continued >construction of the mine. > The complaints come after a human skull fragment at least 3,500 years old >was uncovered at the mine site in late November. The bone was found near >Interstate 390, near where a railroad line to the mine will be built. >Jemison said he met with American Rock Salt officials earlier this month >after finding out about the uncovered remains. He suggested that the >company halt work in an area of about 240 square yards on the 200 acre mine >site until archaeologists can check the vicinity for more remains. > "I�m not telling them to shut down the whole site," Jemison said. > But, he said, the company has indicated it won�t do that. And American >Rock Salt also has rejected that a guard be posted at the site during off >hours to keep artifact scavengers away, Jemison said. > "There are �pot hunters� in this area," Jemison said. > Gunther Buerman a Rochester lawyer and co-owner of the $126 million mining >project, could not be reached for comment yesterday. > Seneca Nation member Darwin Hill said the Native American community >usually gets full cooperation from developers when artifact problems come >up at construction sites. American Rock Salt has been somewhat Native >American community, taking care to avoid two burial mounds at the site. > Jemison said he still hopes to talk with American Rock Salt about the >issue � especially now that frozen ground prevents some work. * > <<<<=-=-=FREE LEONARD PELTIER=-=-=>>>> If you think you are too small to make a difference; try sleeping in a closed room with a mosquito.... African Proverb <<<<=-=http://www.tdi.net/ishgooda/ =-=>>>> IF it says: "PASS THIS TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW...." Please Check it before you send it at: http://urbanlegends.miningco.com/library/blhoax.htm
