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Hawthorne Site

In August 2018, human remains were uncovered during residential development on Hawthorne Road in Shinnecock Hills. Shinnecock leaders objected to further disturbance and called for proper treatment of a possible ancestral burial place while review was pending. When ancestral remains and a seventeenth-century glass bottle were unearthed during residential construction in 2018, local police hastily disturbed the soil looking for a modern crime scene. This destructive mishandling of an ancestral resting place underscores the urgent need for culturally informed protocols that protect Indigenous burials from both developers and uninformed authorities. August 13th, 2018 27 East Article published August 14th by Valerie Gordon; UPDATE: THURSDAY, 11:15 a.m. On Thursday morning, Mike White, who is working with the property owner of 10 Hawthorne Road in Shinnecock Hills where skeletal remains were...