Now the Legislature has enacted them. By Jay Root For years, New York law permitted developers to build atop Native American burial sites without taking steps to preserve the ancient remains ...

Since construction began, 15 separate burial sites have been uncovered, as well as a former ʻauwai (a ditch or canal) and a buried road. Ayau, a Native Hawaiian and possible descendant of those buried ...

Native American children were forced to wear ... that the U.S. government take steps to help locate potential burial sites and “repatriate children who never returned.” Numerous tribes have ...

Gov. Kathy Hochul's year-end veto of legislation to protect unmarked burial sites on Long Island and throughout the state dealt a blow to local Native American tribes who for years have pushed ...

The bill would protect the unmarked burial sites from desecration by private developers, as current federal and state laws do not apply to lands held privately. The bill would apply to Native ...

After battles with previous governors, New York’s Native American leaders were hopeful ... direct descendants of the dead and a new burial site review committee, who would help determine what ...

(WFLA) — It’s long been known that a population of Native Americans lived in Philippe ... be relocated because they are built on ancient burial grounds. The Spanish first documented the ...

ALBANY, N.Y. (WTEN) — New York is one four states without statutory protection for Native American burial sites, but new legislation could change that. Similar legislation passed in both houses ...

or protecting known burial sites. The best approach would be to cease developments and to allow the burials to remain in place, said Crystal Cavalier-Keck, a cofounder of the Native American ...

We were heartened to see New York State adopt a bill that, for the first time, protects unmarked Native American burial sites from destruction when human remains or funerary objects are unearthed ...

A Native American burial site rose from the water, only to be looted and desecrated by treasure hunters. That’s not the plot of a horror movie; it actually happened in DeSoto County. The DeSoto ...