§ 105-1 Native American Burial Ground Ordinance
The Town of Greenfield recognizes, to the extent provided for in State
or Federal law, any known place where American Indian remains have
been buried or reburied as an American Indian Burial Ground, and as
such, it shall be accorded the treatment and protections specified by
Federal or State Laws, including but not limited to 25 USC Chapter 32
(Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation), 42 USC 1996 (The
American Indian Religious Freedom Act, and Section 106 of the National
Historic Preservation Act, MGL Part I Title VI Ch. 38 sec. 6, MGL 114
Ch. 17. It is, furthermore ordered that as soon as human remains of a
Native American and/or a Native American Burial Ground is discovered
and reported and which falls within the jurisdiction of State or
Federal law, a local advocate for Native Americans shall immediately
be appointed by the Mayor and the Narragansett Indian Tribes, who
shall have local jurisdiction over and participate with others having
jurisdiction in the enforcement of State or Federal law relating to
the treatment and protection of American Indian Burial Grounds within
the Town of Greenfield.
Nothing in this Native American Burial Ground Ordinance shall be
deemed as acquiring and an interest in land, or as imposing and any
land use regulation which is properly the subject of State or Federal
law, nor is it intended by the creation and implementation of this
Ordinance to supersede, modify, alter, change, or enlarge any existing
Greenfield Town Ordinance, Zoning Bylaw, or State or Federal law
related to Native American Burial Grounds.
