[HISTORY: Adopted by the Town of Greenfield 5-21-2014 by Order No. FY 14-081 (Ch. 105 of the 2002 Bylaws). Amendments noted where applicable.]
The Town of Greenfield recognizes, to the extent provided for
in state and 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 U.S.C. Chapter
32 (Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation), 42 U.S.C.
§ 1996 (The American Indian Religious Freedom Act), and
Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act, MGL c. 38,
§ 6, and MGL c. 114, § 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 and 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 and federal law relating to the treatment and protection
of American Indian burial grounds within the Town of Greenfield.
Nothing in this chapter shall be deemed as acquiring any interest
in land, or as imposing any land use regulation which is properly
the subject of state and federal law, nor is it intended by the creation
and implementation of this chapter to supersede, modify, alter, change,
or enlarge any existing Greenfield Town ordinance, Zoning Ordinance,
or state and federal law related to Native American burial grounds.
