Coast Miwok descendants in Marin County are urging U.S. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, the nation’s first Native American cabinet secretary, to reject a controversial plan at Point Reyes National Seashore that it says prioritizes commercial cattle ranching over protecting archaeological sites and the environment.
The Coast Miwok Tribal Council of Marin County, a non-federally recognized organization of Coast Miwok descendants formed in early 2020, wrote in a letter to Haaland this month opposing the park’s plans to extend terms of commercial ranches that lease about a quarter of the land at the 71,000-acre national seashore. Doing so, the council said, would be “permitting continued desecration of native sites by 5,500 cows and farming equipment.”
https://www.marinij.com/2021/06/28/desecration-marin-tribal-descendants-oppose-point-reyes-plan/
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