PRESS RELEASE

                                                       RELEASE DATE: 1 JANUARY 2009

ETERNAL RESTING PLACE FOR NATIVE AMERICAN HUMAN REMAINS

Since time immemorial thousands of indigenous people lived, died and were buried in present day Bexar County.

Today there are hundreds of active local, state and federal construction projects throughout San Antonio, Texas with

the potential of unearthing Native American human remains.   And although most Government Agencies have Protocols to

follow when Human remains are uncovered on the work sites, there is no cemetery to serve as a final resting place for

unearthed Native American human remains and their Artifacts.

In the last 10 years I have asked local, state and federal agencies to set aside an acre to serve as a final resting place for

the Native American Human remains and their Artifacts, but I have not had any positive responses.  This year I am asking

the various religious and civic communities in and around San Antonio to contribute at least one acre of land to be fenced

and to serve as a cemetery.  This will ensure that Native American human remains and artifacts that are dug up in Bexar

County will not end up in some display case, or as a study specimen or auctioned off over the internet.

Our Native American Ancestors should be shown the same respect and dignity that other Americans have come to take for

granted once their loved ones are laid to rest.

Ted Herrera

Tlaxcalteca, Coahuilteco, Huichol

Spiritual Leader

Rio Grande Native American Church