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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsOregon Wildlife Refuge Occupiers Rifle Through Native American Artifacts
http://gawker.com/oregon-wildlife-refuge-occupiers-ransack-native-america-1754179614I understand they took a bulldozer and built a line around the refuge headquarters, Roderique told Indian Country Today. You cant go and bulldoze things. I dont know what these people are doing if they are doing things to just get a rise or to be martyrall they are doing is making enemies out of the people they professed to support....
Incidentally, in 2014, members of the Bundy clan driving ATVs through the Recapture Canyon, in southern Utah, to protest its closure to motorized vehicles, ended up trampling Ancestral Puebloan artifacts and dwellings.
Damage to archaeological sites is permanent and the information about our collective past is then lost forever, Jerry Spangler, director of the Colorado Plateau Archaeological Alliance, told the Salt Lake Tribune at the time. It is sad that irreplaceable treasures of importance to all Americans would be sacrificed on the altar of anti-government fervor. It is worse that protesters would be so blinded to their own insensitivity as to what others consider to be sacred treasures of their past.
msongs
(67,193 posts)roguevalley
(40,656 posts)Sorry, Aunt Nell. They're fucking up your town and heritage. RIP, sweetie.
Paladin
(28,204 posts)And how much longer are they going to be allowed to occupy and misuse this region, with no apparent consequences?
Wounded Bear
(58,440 posts)they obviously have no respect for anything outside of their own selfish circle of greed and cowardice.
romanic
(2,841 posts)why isn't the government getting these morons out already?
Bad Dog
(2,025 posts)Is just something else they've got in common with IS.
Shandris
(3,447 posts)Odd how many groups are out destroying native stuff, isn't it? Syria, the Temple of Baal at Palmyra, the Arch, Yemen (*choke*), Oregon, Afghanistan, the Museum of History in Iraq that we were so quick to 'save'... Most while being 'defended' by us (or with us 'engaging' those who destroyed it).
Must just be a coincidence. EDIT: GAH! MY SHRUG EMOJI!
Get those ranchers, they don't wants to pay up dem grazin' fees!!
bkkyosemite
(5,792 posts)I told her with fanatics that will not work. There will come a time when they will have to move. Shut off their electricity and heat. I said what do you think other terrorists think about this. We look like fools. They need to take action.
She said she has gotten many many calls. So I call Merkley too. She said the same.
dembotoz
(16,739 posts)i must admit it would be grand to see one of them being led off the stage on cuffs from antiques roadshow.....
Eugene
(61,595 posts)We also recognize that the Native Americans had the claim to the land, but they lost that claim, Bundy said. There are things to learn from cultures of the past, but the current culture is the most important.
http://registerguard.com/rg/news/local/33958168-75/4000-artifacts-stored-at-oregon-refuge-held-by-armed-group.html.csp
Archaeological treasures will be lost because the Bundy bunch doesn't care.
phantom power
(25,966 posts)Johonny
(20,683 posts)just like it states his father should pay fees to graze on federal land, so much for his argument...
Retrograde
(10,070 posts)It's BLM land, it's Native American artifacts - I'd think that would be in her balliwick.