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To anyone on the List,
Someone sent me a copy of the Newton Co.. Cemetery Ordinance. I am
unable to find my copy. I thought Kyle sent it to me but I cant remember. It was
just what we need for Floyd Co. All we would have to do is change the name of
the Co. and the ordinance number and maybe 1 or 2 other things. We are now
ready to push for a Funded Commission. The sooner the better. The commissioners
are putting together my list of cemeteries and putting them on a Co. map.They
will be Listed Numerically, alphabetically, by Section and Township and Listed
by latitude and Longitude. The Planing and Zoning Board will have a copy so
they will know if there is a Cemetery located on a proposed Development site or
not. I even have the ones that have been destroyed marked close enough that
there will have to be confirmation as to the fact that the cemetery will not be
disturbed. We have potential developments all over the county, and also
Cemeteries. If any one has a copy of a Cemetery Commission Ordinance, I would
appreciate it if they would send me a copy.
Thanks,
Jack E. Briles Sr
jackbriles(a)aol.com
Ancient Puebloans reburied at park
'Wrong righted' at Mesa Verde, says N.M. tribal leader
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By Jim Erickson, Rocky Mountain News
May 5, 2006
TOWAOC - "A wrong has been righted," a New Mexico tribal leader said Thursday
of the recent reburial in Mesa Verde National Park of the remains of more
than 1,500 Ancestral Puebloans.
The prehistoric corn, squash and bean farmers had been unearthed in
archaeological excavations spanning more than a century.
"Finally they have been reburied so they can continue to make their journey,"
said Peter Pino, tribal administrator for the Zia Pueblo in north-central New
Mexico.
New Mexico's Zia, Acoma and Zuni pueblos and Arizona's Hopi tribe worked with
park officials to finalize a repatriation agreement signed in December.
Last month, Hopi officials reburied 1,560 sets of human remains, including
455 nearly complete skeletons, said Linda Towle, the park's chief of research
and resource management. Also buried were 4,937 related funerary objects.
More than 90 percent of the human remains were unearthed during
archaeological excavations between the 1880s and the 1960s at Mesa Verde. The bones are 700
to 1,550 years old, Towle said.
The bones and artifacts were reburied at a remote, undisclosed backcountry
site, she said during the second day of the park's three- day centennial
archaeology symposium. About 100 people are attending the meeting at the Ute Mountain
casino in Towaoc, 11 miles south of Cortez.
Last month's reburial was the culmination of a 13-year negotiation that
initially involved 24 tribes. It was one of the largest reburials since the federal
Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, known as NAGPRA, was
passed in 1990.
That law requires museums and federal agencies to return American Indian
remains, funerary items, sacred objects and other goods to the descendents of the
dead or to culturally affiliated tribes.
"It's long overdue, and it's what every human being deserves, whether you're
Native American or Anglo," said Leigh Kuwanwisiwma, director of the Hopi
cultural preservation office.
"The disturbance of burial grounds is a violation of spiritual law,"
Kuwanwisiwma said. "This particular reburial did ease our minds that the final journey
would finally go toward closure."
Towle said the grave goods included pottery, beads and other jewelry, stone
tools and turkey-feather blankets.
Everything was buried several feet deep, under a "huge mound of very rocky
soil."
Only a handful of park employees know the exact burial location, which is
inaccessible in the winter and is patrolled by park law enforcement officers in
the summer.
Kuwanwisiwma said security was a big concern for all the tribes involved in
the repatriation negotiations.
He said the Hopis are satisfied with the park's security measures and feel
confident that the remains and grave goods are safe from thieves.
Kuwanwisiwma was present at the reburial, which he said did not involve a
ceremony, prayers or songs. "It was simply a reburial," he said.
Twenty-four tribes initially told park officials that they believed their
people are descendents of the prehistoric Mesa Verde dwellers. Later, those 24
tribes selected the Hopi, Zuni, Zia and Acoma to represent them in the
negotiations.
The prehistoric farmers of the Four Corners area have long been known to
archaeologists as the Anasazi. Federal officials and some others now refer to them
as the Ancestral Puebloans.
Under NAGPRA, Mesa Verde National Park was required to inventory all the
American Indian human remains, grave goods and sacred objects in its collection,
which includes about 73 million items. A team of researchers searched every box
and cabinet in the collection, a process that took months to complete, Towle
said.
"We promised the tribes early on that we would rebury their ancestors in the
park," she said.
"We're very pleased that we have been able to accomplish that. We never
thought it would take this long."
The Zia Pueblo's Pino said his people believe that the spirit endures after
the body dies, and that people get "recycled" into new bodies. But first the
spirit must travel to the underworld to get its "next assignment," he said.
Exhuming a body and hauling it off to a museum interrupts that journey,
leaving the spirit in a sort of limbo state between incarnations.
"What you're doing is cutting off the journey to the underworld for the next
assignment," he said.
"It puts a lot of things off balance."
But the reburial allows the interrupted journey to resume, he said.
"A wrong has been righted, and that's good for all of us," Pino said.Under
the law
32,052 sets of human remains and 660,222 related funerary objects, have been
repatriated by the NAGPRA
ericksonj(a)RockyMountainNews.com or 303-892-5129
Thank you Mark.
He was a wonderful giving man.
http://www.jconline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/frontpage
LA
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Kreps" <mjkreps(a)gmail.com>
To: <INPCRP-L(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Thursday, May 04, 2006 9:48 PM
Subject: [INPCRP] Re: update
> Gordon Hooker,
> There won't be one time I use the tripod that I won't thank God for the
> life Gordon led and for bringing him by my way. What a giving man and
> great
> example Gordon Hooker will continue to be. My condolences to his family
> and friends. Our loss, is heaven's gain. What a great homecoming, no doubt
> Gordon was greeted with a host of grateful ancestors.
> Mark Kreps
> Muncie, IN
>
>
> On 5/4/06, Gordon Hooker <gdhooker(a)verizon.net> wrote:
> >
> > This is to let all of Gordon's friends and relatives know that he
> > passed
> > away Wed morning in his sleep at home. His suffering is over and I am
> > sure
> > God has some things for Gordon to fix in heaven!! Thanks for all of you
> > being a part of Gordon's life.
> > Sheila
> >
>
>
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>
Gordon Hooker,
There won't be one time I use the tripod that I won't thank God for the
life Gordon led and for bringing him by my way. What a giving man and great
example Gordon Hooker will continue to be. My condolences to his family
and friends. Our loss, is heaven's gain. What a great homecoming, no doubt
Gordon was greeted with a host of grateful ancestors.
Mark Kreps
Muncie, IN
On 5/4/06, Gordon Hooker <gdhooker(a)verizon.net> wrote:
>
> This is to let all of Gordon's friends and relatives know that he passed
> away Wed morning in his sleep at home. His suffering is over and I am sure
> God has some things for Gordon to fix in heaven!! Thanks for all of you
> being a part of Gordon's life.
> Sheila
>
Our field trip last week went wonderfully! The
students really enjoyed it and we got a lot of work
done. I have a list of over 30 phone numbers to call
this summer for more help (it's just too bad they
can't drive yet!).
The local newspaper came out and did a story, which
actually came out very well. (I'm sure everyone has
had experiences with them getting everything all
wrong!)
Check it out: http://www.flyergroup.com/local/local_story_121081223.html
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