Gila Asks Tribes To Claim Native American Remains

Author:
ICT Staff
Updated:
Sep 12, 2018
Original:
Apr 1, 2009

Gila National Forest officials want tribes to claim Native American human remains and associated artifacts found on forest land in Grant and Catron counties of southwestern New Mexico. A published legal notice said the remains of 48 people and items believed placed with the bodies came from lands recognized as the homeland the Chiricahua Apache tribe, but that

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