From: | Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com> |
Date: | Thu, 18 Sep 2008 15:29:52 -0700 (PDT) |
Reply: | cpeo-military |
Subject: | [CPEO-MEF] REUSE, NATIVE AMERICANS: Ft. Wingate (NM) cemetery proposal |
Fort Wingate: Final resting place Veterans find Fort Wingate a prime cemetery location By Gaye Brown de Alvarez Gallup Independent (NM) September 17, 2008GALLUP - When Fort Wingate Depot was declared inactive in 1993, nobody quite knew what to do with it. In 1918, the Army established a munitions depot around an old cavalry post. From 1918 until its closure in 1993, the 22,000-acre installation stored and demolished ammunition. In negotiations with the tribes, the Army Base Realignment and Closure Program transferred half of the 22,000 acres to be used jointly by the tribes, retaining the other half for missile testing and launching. In 1970, the land was determined by the U.S. Indian Claims Commission to be aboriginal Navajo lands. Then in 1989 a U.S. Claims Court determined that Fort Wingate was in part, also Zuni aboriginal lands. But the Zuni land has not been officially staked and talks are ongoing between the two tribes. ... For the entire article, see http://www.gallupindependent.com/2008/09september/091708wingate.html -- 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> http://www.cpeo.org _______________________________________________ Military mailing list Military@lists.cpeo.org http://lists.cpeo.org/listinfo.cgi/military-cpeo.org | |
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