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Snake Creek Indian Cemetery, Dade County, Florida
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The Issue
American Indian Movement of Florida
Press Release
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 27, 2001
For More Information Contact
Sheridan Murphy, State Executive Director or
Mark Madrid, State Information Director
FLORIDA AIM CONDEMNS MIAMI-DADE SCHOOL BOARD PLAN FOR SNAKE CREEK INDIAN CEMETARY
The American Indian Movement of Florida (Florida AIM) has been monitoring the situation involving the Miami-Dade School Board's gaffe at the purchase of a property with known Indigenous cemetaries within it. Florida AIM South Florida members and support group members have been monitoring the Carol City site.
Florida AIM learned today that the Miami-Dade County School Board is considering converting the property into a parking lot for its school buses. The American Indian Movement of Florida will not tolerate such a repugnant desecration of an Indigenous cemetary. We suspect the Miami-Dade County School Board would not dare consider such a proposal for any non-Indian cemetary, nor would someone turn the grave of the unknown soldier or any of their ancestors into a parking lot for school buses.
Florida AIM demands the Indigenous cemetary at the site be given the respect it is due. We will tolerate nothing less.
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American Indian Movement of Florida
Two Elk/Goyette Memorial State Office
136 4th Street North Suite 308 Saint Petersburg, FL 33701
(727) 826-6960 FAX (727) 550-2207
Email; AIMFL@aol.com Web Page http://members.aol.com/AIMFL
Following is a link to the news article which Tom Scott, Southern Regional Support Coordinator of FLAIM, notes first broke the story:
Indian Grave on Debated School Parcel, by Tom Dubocq for the Miami Herald, published 2001 April 25
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Action:
Contact:
Sheridan Murphy, AIMFL State Executive Director or
Mark Madrid, State Information Director
AIMFL@aol.com * * *
Update: 2001 May 1
Plan for Indian gravesite assailed: Dade School Board talks of bus depot, by Tom Dubocq for the Miami Herald, published 2001 May 1
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Update: 2001 14 May
From FL AIM
Greetings:
Nearly twenty members of the American Indian Movement of Florida and the
Florida AIM Support Groups spent several hours cleaning up an Indigenous
cemetery where the former Sandman Nursery is located in Carol City, FL.
The Mothers Day Indigenous cemetery clean-up was done after Florida AIM
learned about the site owned by the Miami-Dade County School District, is
being considered for a school bus parking lot. The School District claims
they bought the property without knowing the site included an Tequesta
cemetery on it.
The Miami-Dade School District refused to cooperate with Florida AIM's
request for access to the site. The site was locked, AIM members and
supporters simply circumvented the lock and filled 15 trash bags, as well as
removed some larger material from the site placing it in front of the gate
for removal. Local residents noted the school board had mowed the property
the day before and sent in work crews to clean up some of the refuse the day
before as well.
AIM members and supporters also leafletted neighbors to build support to make
the property a passive park.
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