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Native Americans seek to declare Alamo grounds old cemetery

By SCOTT HUDDLESTON - Associated Press

In this Sept. 6, 2017 photo, Ramon Vasquez, left, with American Indians in Texas at the Spanish Colonial Missions, sings during an announcement made in front of the Alamo in San Antonio, regarding the kickoff of the second Annual World Heritage Festival. Two competing requests to designate the Alamo in San Antonio as a Historical Texas Cemetery could change how the mission is remembered. The Texas General Land Office wants to have the Alamo church listed as a historic Texas cemetery, citing the names of three people buried there nearly a century before the 1836 battle. Another proposal from Native American groups seeks a much larger area be designated a cemetery at the revered site.(John Davenport/The San Antonio Express-News via AP)

Competing cemetery proposals could impact Alamo plans

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In this Aug. 13, 2010 photo provided by the North Dakota Petroleum Council is an oil rig in North Dakota's oil patch. Across the state's active oil fields drilling crews, road builders and those who want to plunge their equipment into the ground often must wait for another team known for slow, meticulous study _ archaeologists, whose job is to survey the land before a single spade of dirt can be turned. The routine surveys have produced a rare jobs bonanza in American archaeology and with more archaeologists now working in the oil fields, the number of historic sites in North Dakota jumped from 846 in 2009 to nearly 2,260 in 2013. (AP Photo/North Dakota Petroleum Council)

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