Native American group doesn't want more mounds disturbed at Pasco park
Many community members are against turning Anclote River Park into a complex. One big reason some don’t want anything else built here is this Indian Burial Mound.
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Many community members are against turning Anclote River Park into a complex. One big reason some don’t want anything else built here is this Indian Burial Mound.
Pasco County’s plan to expand and update Anclote River Park has attracted the attention of organizations that work to protect the sacred sites, historical settings and burial grounds of indigenous Florida residents. A letter to the county earlier this month from the American Indian Movement of Florida and the Florida Indigenous Alliance put county officials on notice that they were watching ...
The indigenous organizations cite numerous rules regulating development near historic mounds and cemeteries.
The Jupiter Town Coun voted Tuesday night to allow a developer to partially dig on Suni Sands property at A1A, which town documents consider a Native American archeological site.
The vote will temporarily protect the archeological site from further demolition by Related Group, founded by museum namesake Jorge Pérez.