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The Bay Area indigenous land movement is finally starting to see some wins. Shellmound in Berkeley is a big win for the Ohlone tribe. [0]

[0]https://www.berkeleyside.org/2024/03/12/berkeley-shellmound-...

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Different structure though. These folk are preservationists and only decided to fight for the place once the parking lot was going to be replaced. Overall, it's not a bad play, though. 36% profit underperforms the loan over the period, but it's not nothing.

So developer wants to build on land they legally own, indigenous complain and get the city to block development and then to use tax-payer dollars to help them buy it, and then they will turn around and develop it themselves?

Is this not just blatant extortion?

Shh. Make sure the tribe’s leadership knows to stay quiet for a while until they can pick up a few more parcels before unveiling their plans to exceed the height of the Burj Khalifa.

I’m obviously half joking here. No intent to be insensitive. Even if they don’t build anything it’s better than a parking lot.

When they rip up the asphalt and find no significant bones or artifacts in the marsh underneath, any plans for a cultural interpretive center are going to turn into a mural and some bronze sculptures in the middle of newly designed Ohlone Towers.

Maybe the tallest free standing inhabited structure in the world would be a great monument to the ancestors?

Maybe it would. Why does it matter to you?

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