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Save the West Berkeley Shellmound

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Isabella Zizi
9 years ago

Enough is enough. Indigenous peoples have to continuously battle for our right to practice our traditions, speak our language, keep our sacred lands sacred, and make sure treaties aren't constantly broken. We cannot desecrate the oldest ancestral village and burial site of the Ohlone people. Times like this we need to unite and come to agreements for once. I support this petition 110% and will continue to raise awareness for my Ohlone relatives who's land I call home.

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leslie dreyer
9 years ago

No more development on sacred Ohlone land!!!

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Xiomara Rayo
9 years ago

We need to stop taking the land of the people who in reality are the reason why we're even here. Thanks to their generosity.

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Rebecca Edwards
9 years ago

We've already built over too much Ohlone land. Respect what little remains for the native people in Berkeley.

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Polly Bates
9 years ago

These sites are sacred and need to be respected as such-we owe the Ohlone that in the very least!

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Anonymous
9 years ago

Please listen to the Ohlone community on this.

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Zaylia Pluss
9 years ago

"Berkeley" is Ohlone land, protect Ohlone sacred sites! We don't need more shopping malls.

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Julie Aronowitz
9 years ago

As a Berkeley resident and voter, this is extremely important to me!

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Ariana Thompson-Lastad
9 years ago

West Berkeley resident, 94710

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Lucas Guilkey
9 years ago

Oakland, California

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Chanaye Thomas
9 years ago

Like Standing Rock, we will win this.

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hartman deetz
9 years ago Featured

the first city in the country to adopt indigenous peoples day needs to start honoring the native people of its own land not just the romanticized indians of the plains and the south west. without honoring the ohlone burials everything else you do in the name of honoring native people is a sham

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Rupa Marya
9 years ago

I would rather see an Ohlone village reconstructed here, to be a place in the Bay Area where we can learn from local indigenous culture and participate in the honoring of the people who kept this land and water pristine for the 10,000 years of living here. I urge the City of Berkeley to stop the ongoing culture genocide of indigenous cultures. We need to uplift and celebrate the native cultures here, not continue to ignore and cover.

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Coby Leibman
9 years ago

End the legacy of abuse of native culture

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Anonymous
9 years ago

Berkeley, be a bold leader and model for other cities. Protect and honor the last of the remaining sacred sites of Indigenous people.

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Robert Kevess
9 years ago

Indigenous rights must be respected!

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Steve
9 years ago

Respect.

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Kirra Swenerton
9 years ago

Do not let this happen again! Indigenous people and their sacred sites deserve the utmost respect. We don't need more buildings. We need to protect the land.

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Inés Ixierda
9 years ago

Berkeley, please take this opportunity to move towards justice for the original inhabitants of the land. Do not allow construction on this sacred place. Please preserve and protect the shellmound of West Berkeley. place.

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Julie hernandez
9 years ago

We must preserve our history and sacred sites. Respect and educate.