Life & Times Transcripts: 05/10/04

Life & Times Transcripts: 05/10/04: "Val Zavala>> Tonight on Life and Times --

Digging on sacred ground. What happens when a major development
encounters an ancient Indian burial ground?

Robert Dorame>> That is an intact cemetery. This is a village
site. This belongs, and always has been respectively belonging,
to the Tongva people.

Val>> And then, remembering Cesar Chavez. He had a huge impact
on the health and welfare of farm workers, but is his legacy
still intact?

All that and more straight ahead on tonight's Life and Times.

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Val>> What happens when a construction crew unearths a sacred
Indian burial ground? Well, that's what happened last fall at
the huge Playa Vista development near Marina Del Rey.
Construction crews uncovered an Indian cemetery. It wasn't a
big surprise. After all, the Tongva-Gabrieleno Indians had
lived in that area for centuries. But what to do with the
remains sparked an intense battle not only between Native-
Americans in Playa Vista, but within the tribe itself."