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Battle Brewing Over Sprawl Onto Sacred Sites

Posted by: Chris Steins
Thanks to: Design Architecture
19 August 2001 - 9:00am

As suburban sprawl expands, it is increasingly encroaching on sacred native-American sites.

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Toltec Mounds stands as silent a reminder of more simple days, when time was told by the sun instead of digital gadgets... But progress from nearby Little Rock may infringe on the mounds. GenPower LLC, a private energy company based in Needham, Mass., plans to build a $350 million power plant about 1-1/2 miles away.

Full Story: Suburban sprawl spurs fights over sacred Indian sites
Source: The Christian Science Monitor, August 16, 2001
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