Interstate 15 Construction -- Indian Burial Grounds Collection 1977-1978

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Interstate 15 Construction -- Indian Burial Grounds Collection 1977-1978

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The Interstate 15 Construction – Indian Burial Grounds Collection consists of a small group of correspondence, memoranda, notes and newspaper clippings from June 1977 to April 1978. The primary subject of these documents is the preservation, excavation and examination of several prehistoric Native American sites associated with the Luiseno Indians of Southern California which were discovered by Caltrans archaeologists in preparation for the construction of the Interstate 15 extension.

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Biographical Note In 1968 the United States government and the California Highway Commission recognized the need for an additional route in Southern California which would convey traffic in a north-south direction was needed, and a decision was made to extend Interstate 15 from the Riverside and San Bernardino area southward along U.S. Highway 395. Required to comply with section 106 of the Federal Historic Preservation Act, the F...

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