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Little Salt Spring, North Port, Florida
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The Issue
Little Salt Spring is an active status site where archaeologists from the University of Miami are excavating. As most school work is done in the summer it's expected this issue will go critical again very soon. * * * Little Salt Spring Press Release FL AIM, approx. 2000 June 15
Subject: FLORIDA AIM DEMANDS GHOULS HALT EFFORTS IN LITTLE SALT SPRINGS
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
The American Indian Movement of Florida (Florida AIM) has
demanded that the
University of Miami(FL) Ghoul department aka Anthropology
Department halt its
efforts to desecrate the cemetary of Timucuan peoples now
located under the
waters of a sink hole in Little Salt Springs.
University of Miami degreed grave robber aka Anthropologist
John Gifford is
reported to be excited to learn that the Indigenous peoples
can be shown to
be in Florida for "at least 12,000 years if we get to those
bodies." If these
ghouls and grave robbers would respectfully listen to
traditional Seminoles
they might learn Indigenous peoples have been here for at
least 40,000 years
without having to loot a single Indigenous cemetary.
In 1985 Florida AIM failed in attempting to obtain the
repatriation of 500
Ais peoples desecrated from Windover Farms in Titusville,
FL
we have since
protected 156 Indigenous cemetaries or forced repatriations.
We retain a zero
tolerance policy with these ghouls and illegal and legal
grave robbers who
desecrate Indigenous burial sites with impunity in Florida.
We have advised the University of Miami that the respectful
course of action
would be to respect the Indigenous cemetary at Little Salt
Springs and leave
it alone. They continue their ghoulish acts and their own
risk. Florida AIM
will take swift, decisive and responsive action to protect
Indigenous burial
sites in the state of Florida.
FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT
Sheridan Murphy, State Executive Director
Mark Madrid, State Information Director
at AIMFL@AOL.COM
More online reading:
2000 June 16 article at Sun-herald.com,
Native Americans plan to stop disturbance of burial sites at Little Salt Spring, by Liliane Parbot-Johnson
2000 June 18 article at Sun-herald.com,
Native Americans and others ready to protect burial grounds, by Liliane Parbot-Johnson
2000 September 4 article at Sun-herald.com,
Urban sprawl: A threat to archaeological finds?, by Pat Leisner
Contact:
Sheridan Murphy, AIMFL State Executive Director or
Mark Madrid, State Information Director
AIMFL@aol.com
Update: Info current upon entry into IBSGWatch site May 18 2001
Information submitted by Tom Scott
Southern Regional Support Coordinator
American Indian Movement of Florida
http://www.geocities.com/aim_sfsg/
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