-----Original Message----- > From: Nancy Jackson <tsalagi@train.missouri.org> > To: cherokeendn@egroups.com <cherokeendn@egroups.com> I too am glad you posted this info. Our heritage is challenged contantly it seems. Not only are our cemetaries being razed but, our own civil rights are being abused by people such as the "nine duck hunters" that challenges the right to keep others off private land. I do not know how this case came out or if it has made it to court yet but, if this case is lost it will affect all of us, not just Gazaway. Nancy do you know if there is a mailing list for Choctaw as your Cherokee ? Martha eaglesup wrote: from cherokeendn@egroup.com >>Nine duck hunters sued Gazaway in 1994 after Gazaway closed the access > >>road to Schaeffer's Eddy to protect an American Indian burial site... > >> He built a fence across the road after finding what archeologists later > >>determined to be 1,000- to 1,500-year-old bones of an American Indian > >>child about 10 feet from his road... >>>>>>>> Morrow speculated because of the land's proximity to the Black and > >>Current rivers, the area was once a thriving Indian community... > >> Gazaway said he will appeal Hilburn's decision so he can protect the > >>burial site. "I trust in the Arkansas judicial system's laws on property > >>rights," he said. "If they rule by the law, then I feel I will regain > >>full ownership and control of my property."