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About 12 years ago thats when we
first started doing community organizing
work with Indian people
organizing for change
and we started getting phone calls
from contractors and from carpenters.
People tell me, "hey there's a burial over here"
"did you know that they found this over there"
So in Brentwood we found out that 
they moved 366 bodies
13 bodies, in San Jose
The big Emeryville project where it's on top of one of the
largest shell mounds in the Bay Area.
It was 600 ft in diameter
30 ft high. It was on an 1859 survey map as people were coming
into the Bay Area it was a point of
reference.
So it was a huge shell mound.
Emeryville decided that it was during the dot com era
and they decided that they wanted to
bring commerce into Emeryville
and by doing that they were going to
build this mall.
We asked them to clean it up and to leave it as it is leave it as a sanctuary
for Native people for the only people that talk about the history.
They decided no that, that's not
what they wanted to do
And pretty soon they were pulling up hundreds of bodies
When they piled in to put the movie place in and where the garage is
they piled through a baby cemetary
and so what they decided to do was to put that horrible
little tiny mound with a metal
basket on it and that's supposed to represent
thousands of years of my ancestors.
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