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violation of burial sites (Remove filter)

ONLY THESE REMAIN

ONLY THESE REMAIN

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Only these remain

Anatomical remains.

 

Construction

Sites unearth

Disconnected 

Joints.

 

Only these remain

Skeletal remains.

 

Shellmounds disturbed--

Buried no more.

Bagged, tagged & stored

In a file cabinet drawer.

 

Only these remain

Ancestral remains.

 

Evidence that they

Existed here l...

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Native AmericansSan Francisco Bay Area U.S.A.fossil excavationtribe displacementviolation of burial sitescolonialism

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