Post by Okwes on Feb 27, 2008 15:29:30 GMT -5
OCEANSIDE € ¦’¶ The Luise€ ¦ño Indians will have about half an acre set aside as a sacred site in an 18-acre expansion of the Eternal Hills Memorial Park cemetery.
The Oceanside Planning Commission approved the expansion plans in December but required that one acre be set aside as a culturally significant archaeological site for the tribe.
Eternal Hills appealed the decision. It said the requirement would limit the space available for future burials. A compromise between the tribe and Eternal Hills was announced at Wednesday night's City Council meeting, and the council approved it unanimously. The tribe will now have .45 of an acre. Mel Vernon, spokesman for the Mission San Luis Rey Band of Mission Indians, or Luise€ ¦ños as they are known, said the compromise left them the most-important red-rock area on the cemetery property. He called it € ¦’³as close to a success as I've ever experienced€ ¦’´ in trying to prevent desecration of sacred Indian places. € ¦’³Culture should not be looked at as an obstacle to progress or development,€ ¦’´ he said. The Luise€ ¦ños are original inhabitants of the San Luis Rey Valley area of Oceanside, and were here when the Spanish explorers built the Mission San Luis Rey in 1798. Eternal Hills cemetery is at El Camino Real and Fire Mountain Drive, north of state Route
78. Cemetery operations currently occupy 42 of 130 acres owned by Eternal Hills. Sixty-four acres are reserved for native habitat. The expansion will provide about 17,800 new burial spaces. <http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/northcounty/20080220-2245-bn20oside.html> Material appearing here is distributed without profit or monitory gain to those who have expressed an interest in receiving the material for research and educational purposes. This is in accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. section 107.
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The Oceanside Planning Commission approved the expansion plans in December but required that one acre be set aside as a culturally significant archaeological site for the tribe.
Eternal Hills appealed the decision. It said the requirement would limit the space available for future burials. A compromise between the tribe and Eternal Hills was announced at Wednesday night's City Council meeting, and the council approved it unanimously. The tribe will now have .45 of an acre. Mel Vernon, spokesman for the Mission San Luis Rey Band of Mission Indians, or Luise€ ¦ños as they are known, said the compromise left them the most-important red-rock area on the cemetery property. He called it € ¦’³as close to a success as I've ever experienced€ ¦’´ in trying to prevent desecration of sacred Indian places. € ¦’³Culture should not be looked at as an obstacle to progress or development,€ ¦’´ he said. The Luise€ ¦ños are original inhabitants of the San Luis Rey Valley area of Oceanside, and were here when the Spanish explorers built the Mission San Luis Rey in 1798. Eternal Hills cemetery is at El Camino Real and Fire Mountain Drive, north of state Route
78. Cemetery operations currently occupy 42 of 130 acres owned by Eternal Hills. Sixty-four acres are reserved for native habitat. The expansion will provide about 17,800 new burial spaces. <http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/northcounty/20080220-2245-bn20oside.html> Material appearing here is distributed without profit or monitory gain to those who have expressed an interest in receiving the material for research and educational purposes. This is in accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. section 107.
www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.html