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Archive Home > 2008 > June > 09 > Effort to preserve tribal site has been lengthy

Effort to preserve tribal site has been lengthy

Millican Valley couple, fearing possible mine, seek historic listing

By Hillary Borrud / The Bulletin
June 9, 2008

For the past 3,000 years, an area along Millican Valley’s Dry River has drawn people for hunting and spiritual purposes, who left behind rock art, obsidian tools and burial grounds.

For Northern Paiute tribal members who still worship there, it is a sacred place.

Yet more than two....

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