Glen Cove – Save this Burial Ground.

Since 2005, I have been involved in helping the City of Vallejo, CA understand that all burial grounds and cemeteries are sacred and should NEVER be disturbed.

Here in our hometown, on a beautiful 15 acre plot that the City owns as public access property on the Carquinez Straits (named after the Carquinez Indians) is a very large burial ground of the Ohlone Indian Nation. The burial ground is 3,500 years old as reported by the University of California when they did a survey in 1905c. In about 1935 the Stremmel Family bought and used the land for dairy land and built a large home on it on top of the shell mound. That’s a little history.

The City of Vallejo has decided to develop this land into a formal park with a paved parking lot, toilets, paved jogging paths and park benches with newly panted trees, etc., when there is really no need to do this. The land is beautiful in it’s natural state.

I read a post about so much of our history being destroyed on here and this reminded me of the fact that most municipalities don’te even care about digging up a burial ground much less anything else.

At any rate, we are all protesting this action and the Inter Tribal Council has filed a Civil Rights action – after all, no one digs up white cemeteries to put in a parking lot or park. The peaceful protests and law suit has not yet convinced the City of Vallejo to leave this property alone and I fear there will be arrests and violations of the land and people. It seems nothing is sacred any more. Send your prayers out to us here, please.

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Glen Cove Vallejo California Protest