The Lummi Nation of Washington has settled a lawsuit with a firm that allowed tribal ancestors to be removed from a work site.
Golder Associates agreed to pay the tribe $4.25 million, which includes the cost of reburial and compensation for individual families.
An archaeology consultant for the firm allowed workers at a wastewater-treatment plant site to dig up a former village. The workers removed remains and artifacts that were to be used as landfill. The archaeologist allegedly took some remains out of state, according to The Seattle Times.
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Construction settlement brings relief to Lummis
(The Seattle Times 4/15)
Lummi's settle over Blaine burial site (KING 5 News 4/14)
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Lummi Nation settles lawsuit over grave disturbance
Thursday, April 15, 2004
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