Local News in Brief : Ventura County Gives Land for Indian Graves
The Ventura County Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to give 3.27 acres of county land to two local Chumash Indian groups as a site to bury the remains of about 60 Indians found last year in a flood control channel near Point Mugu.
The remote site, adjacent to Oakbrook Regional Park in Thousand Oaks, was acquired by the county in a swap with a private developer for 1.5 acres of parkland, county officials said.
The bones were discovered in the Calleguas Creek flood control channel, from where they eventually would have been washed to the sea if they had not been moved.
The Coastal Band of the Chumash Nation last month agreed to drop a $50-million lawsuit against the Candelaria American Indian Council and the Ventureno Chumash over the reburial plan. The Coastal Band had charged that moving the remains would disturb their ancestors’ souls.
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