Using Window Live Update aerial photos to examine the
ruined pyramid mound and cave area that is the very
heart and most sacred ground of the Skywatcher
ancestral grounds, it was found that a home is being
built just a few yards from the remains of the mound.
The goal of the primary fundraising effort was to
raise the funds to re acquire these lands which were
taken away in the 1700s by a Spanish Military
Expedition.
The site was then occupied by settlers who tried to
level the mound(s) for farming.
The owners of the parcel, a church, was contacted by
mail and notified that the Skywatcher Clan would like
to purchase the land backk. The church never
acknowledged nor did it ever grant permission to
examine the site archaeologically.
It was decided when the Skywatcher Clan registered as
a non profit organization, that if the heartland was
lost, the effort to purchase the surrounding lands
would be abandoned. This has come to pass.
The Skywatchers are now trying to purchase a much
smaller parcel near what is the temporary tribal
headquarters. This site; called INDIAN HILL, has
ancestral burial grounds/ mound, a sink hole and two
Earth energy field emissions. Residents in the are
associate weird happenings with the spirits of the
ancients buried there.
In addition to trying to acquire that site, the
neighborhood where the tribal chief lives will be the
new site for the Skywatcher reservation.
Remarkably, all local news agencies are purposely
refusing to cover the story about the fundraising for
a project to benefit the community, or the
archaeological projects or the tribe itself. They were
once interested until an editor stated that the tribe
was too controversial and cut off all communications
since.
Only a local Native American Crafts store; WESTERN
CRAFTS, would pass out flyers on the INDIAN HILL
project. No one else will. Although the tribe has been
severly discriminated by Orange Couty (Florida)
government, their parks department was still invited
to participate in the INDIAN HILL project.
The Florida Division of Historic Preservation stated
that the project qualified for a matching grant.
Unfortunately, the Skywatchers have only managed to
raise $6000 since becoming a non profit organization.
A matching grant is limited to what the organization
has. In addition, the project has to be finished one
year after the check is issued. $12000 doesn't buy one
parcel let alone the whole site. This makes the grant
offer useless.
If Orange County gets its hands on the site, it will
exclude the Skywatcher tribe from managing the site
and ruin it like they did to Rock Springs (part of the
original tribal nation site).
Chief AraChiya (John Martello)
Order of the Skywatcher Clan
email: omegaltd@yahoo.com
website: www.skywatcherclan.0catch.com/
