A Native American tribe in Northern California is racing toward a Friday deadline to conclude its search for human remains and cultural artifacts on what was once a tribal village site but will soon be home to a shared-use path and parking area.
"I made a commitment that my administration would prioritize and respect nation-to-nation relationships, and I’m going to make sure that happens," President Joe Biden said at a recent White House Tribal Nations Summit.
In late October, Art Garcia, the tribe’s cultural resources manager, found a bone fragment in the soil, and the county coroner’s office was notified so an investigator could review whether it was human, the sheriff’s department said in a release. The remains were deemed too small to be identifiable, the department said.
Wintu Winnemem Chief and Spiritual Leader, Caleen Sisk-Franco walks the banks of the McCloud River a sacred site for their tribe."Children's Rock" a site used by the tribe to educate their young children in the ways of the tribe. Wintu Winnemem ChieShe said it’s frustrating that the team is "still cleaning up a mess that" was a result of construction, referring to the sifting that remains to be done.
"You don’t have to be an archeologist to go out there and look and realize, oh, man, yeah, this is a village site," he said. "And when you have a village, people pass away and they bury them."
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