Native American tribe fears border wall will destroy historic cemetery

[Judi Lynn]

FEB. 19, 2019 / 1:07 PM

PHARR, Texas, Feb. 19 (UPI) -- Members of a Native American group have camped out for a month in a South Texas cemetery to protect graves and a Methodist chapel from construction of a wall along the Mexico border.

"We are letting people know there are sacred sites here," said Juan Mancias, chairman of the Carrizo Comecrudo tribe of South Texas.

About 10 protesters are camped at the Eli Jackson cemetery and the Jackson Ranch Methodist chapel and graveyard, both established in the 19th century.

"There are veterans buried here," Mancias said. "We are trying to help some of our relatives who are ancestrally related to us by linear descent. The oldest one here was born in 1809 and died around the 1890s. You are looking at something that needs to be preserved. We have cleaned it up to show the graves are here."

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https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2019/02/19/Native-American-tribe-fears-border-wall-will-destroy-historic-cemetery/5361550492941/

[Bayard]

1. I'm guessing tRump will want to move the graves?

A'la Poltergeist. Or he could just bulldoze right on thru.

They take this kind of thing very seriously when I lived in CA. You're not allowed to do any new construction within a certain distance of sacred sites or graveyards. I had a guy, that was doing some major earth-moving for me, once kick dirt over one of the many big grinding stones on my property. "Don't let anyone know that's there".