Fairhope, Alabama
FEDERAL FUNDING REQUIREMENT
According to public works director Johnson an Oklahoma-based (Wetumka) tribe of Muskogee Indians (Choctaw) is holding up the parking garage project that was supposed to get under way this summer, because of cultural heritage concerns.
The tribe wants the city to hire an archaeologist to survey/monitor the site for artifacts where the asphalt is to be dug up and replaced (with pavers), Johnson said.
The so called 'Art Alley' project includes a BRATS bus transit hub on the south side and is intended to increase usage of the city parking garage to ease chronic street-parking shortages: total cost estimate was $817K.
Funding is mostly to be from the Eastern Shore Metropolitan Transit Organization with appropriate match from the city.
NATIVE AMERICANS IN FAIRHOPE
Five different native American cultures inhabited the area over time, according to an exhibit at the museum where artifacts found here are on display now.
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| Garage alley today. |
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| Proposed 'Art Alley' |
FEDERAL FUNDING REQUIREMENT
According to public works director Johnson an Oklahoma-based (Wetumka) tribe of Muskogee Indians (Choctaw) is holding up the parking garage project that was supposed to get under way this summer, because of cultural heritage concerns.
The tribe wants the city to hire an archaeologist to survey/monitor the site for artifacts where the asphalt is to be dug up and replaced (with pavers), Johnson said.
The so called 'Art Alley' project includes a BRATS bus transit hub on the south side and is intended to increase usage of the city parking garage to ease chronic street-parking shortages: total cost estimate was $817K.
Funding is mostly to be from the Eastern Shore Metropolitan Transit Organization with appropriate match from the city.
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| Art Alley layout. |
NATIVE AMERICANS IN FAIRHOPE
Five different native American cultures inhabited the area over time, according to an exhibit at the museum where artifacts found here are on display now.
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| Fairhope history museum. |
Comments
Over the course of federal policies of removal, assimilation, reorganization, termination, and self-determination, the subject land was likely purchased from Indians more than once. It's over.
This is not state property, and these are not burial mounds. The development should go on.
Otherwise, we will be paralyzed, as they are in places such as California--a model of failed government that Alabama can reliably look to as a negative role model.
What's your point? Do you know what most of these indigenous people call themselves? Indians, Native Americans, or both.
So, whom are you scolding? Beware: wokeness and facts seldom correspond.
Let's stick to the issue.