Hard Life<\/strong><\/h2>\nUp until the 1970s, tribal members lived on the cemetery itself in basic homes without electricity or plumbing.<\/p>\n
In 1975, JIV was granted federal recognition as an official band of Kumeyaay Indians. This allowed the tribe to acquire tribal land of its own so they could, eventually, build the casino.<\/p>\n
The Jamal Casino was controversial from the word go and has been fiercely opposed by local, nontribal residents, as well as some tribal members.<\/p>\n
To make way for the casino, the tribe had to completely move out of the village. In 2007,\u00a0 three nontribal residents of the village who opposed the casino were forcefully evicted.<\/p>\n
This week, Glenn Ravell, president of local residents\u2019 group the Jamul Action Committee (JAC), told CBS 8<\/em> the tribe\u2019s plan to add a new event center, 16-story hotel tower, and a six-story parking structure to the casino will damage the cemetery.<\/p>\nThe contractor is currently boring 120 soil nails, those are horizontal nails that go 35 feet west into an area that will certainly encroach on funeral objects and may encroach on people buried there,”<\/strong> Ravell said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\u201cIt’s the JIV who, amongst any of us in San Diego County who might be sympathetic to the sacredness of this burial ground, you might expect it to be other Native Americans. And yet that doesn’t seem to matter,” he added.<\/p>\n
Ravell\u2019s organization has been chided by a federal judge for legally harassing JIV<\/a>. In court filings, JAC has called the tribe a \u201chalf-blood Indian community,\u201d\u00a0that is \u201cnot a historic tribe with inherent sovereign authority.\u201d<\/p>\nThese claims have been dismissed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Concerns that the expansion of the Jamul Casino near San Diego, Calif. could be disturbing a nearby historic cemetery have taken a fresh twist. A lawsuit accuses the Roman Catholic Diocese of San Diego of fraud. It also claims the diocese transferred the cemetery to tribal casino operator the Jamul Indian Village (JIV) in 2017 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":268464,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,60,18456],"tags":[85821,85820,85822],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
Jamul Casino Cemetery Damage Linked to Church Abuse Claims<\/title>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n