[CPEO-BIF] Valmont Butte (CO) project dropped

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

A Colorado sacred site remains in limbo

By Caroy Berry
Indian Country Today
February 3, 2009

BOULDER, Colo. - Valmont Butte, a site considered sacred by at least two 
Great Plains tribes, won't be placed on the market by the city and 
recent negotiations with the nonprofit Trust for Public Lands have 
ended, leaving the landmark's fate uncertain.

"We have no idea what they're going to do with the butte," said Lori 
Windle, co-chair of the Valmont Butte Heritage Alliance, who said the 
City of Boulder apparently wants to avoid the costs associated with 
preparing the site for sale. "The Heritage Alliance's mission is to try 
to preserve and protect this area - to keep reminding the city of the 
sacredness of the place."

A city memorandum issued Jan. 9 recommends against any decision about 
the property's future until environmental cleanup issues are more fully 
resolved.

Valmont Butte, isolated on the plains east of Boulder, was a place of 
importance to Cheyenne and Arapaho people, as well as to other tribes 
who lived or traveled in the area. In intervening years it has sustained 
industrial pollution including radioactive contamination.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/national/midwest/38866662.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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