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Wounded Knee DeOcampo Greetings. Greetings to the City Council, greetings to the citizens of Vallejo. It is time that we ask the City Council to put a halt to desecrating the sacred burial grounds of our ancestors. This sacred site is 3,500 years old, dating back to 1,500 BC. My mother was born on the California Indian reservation at Tuolumne, CA. She was a Miwok. She took me to that site when I was a little bitty boy, and told me about that sacred site. We are asking you, and the citizens of Vallejo, to protect this sacred site. It is very spiritual to Indian people, and we need the help of the citizens of Vallejo to back us, to protect this sacred site. This sacred site is a home of many, many California tribes that travelled through this area. They came there on their tule canoes, they came there to do their ceremonies, and to trade, and do their vision quests. This is very sacred to us. It's a 3,500 year old sacred burial ground of our ancestors. So I ask the City of Vallejo: Are you in violation of Human Rights, are you in violation of Civil Rights, are you in violation of HR 1913, the Hate Act, or are you in violation of a violent act to destroy a sacred burial ground? There are many many people watching the City of Vallejo and GVRD around the world and around this country. We have many, many supporters [and organizations] who are supporting us to protect this sacred burial ground. And [they include] the American Indian Movement, and other organizations, IPOC [Indian People Organizing for Change], and International Indian Treaty Council, and Greenaction. We are asking you not to desecrate this sacred site. This is a sacred site of many, many people. My ancestors could be buried down there. And I'm asking the City Council to listen to our cry. Because our ancestors are crying for us to protect that sacred site. And we need your support, to protect that sacred site. I'm asking you, and pleading with you, and the GVRD. No more desecration. It is time to halt. Enough is enough of desecrating sacred sites and burial grounds of indigenous people. Thank you very much.
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