Rep. Vinson Sablan (Ind-Saipan) wants to shed light on the whereabouts of the reported 332 human remains and artifacts uncovered on the construction grounds of the Saipan casino in Garapan during archaeological work last year.<\/p>\n
Sablan asked House Speaker Rafael Demapan (R- Saipan) to allow the appropriate House committee to seek an audience with the Historic Preservation Office on this matter.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere has been no light shed on their whereabouts,\u201d said Sablan. \u201cI feel our people deserve to know\u2026 We are not sure how long this is going take.\u201d<\/p>\n
Do we want the remains \u201cin a container or have them in a resting place?\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
Sablan said he been told that the remains where kept somewhere around Lower Base, and kept in a container, which he reminded should be air-conditioned and provided 24-hour security.<\/p>\n
\u201cHopefully, we can expedite the final report and recovery,\u201d Sablan said. \u201cOur people deserve to know\u201d and our \u201cancestors deserve to rest.\u201d<\/p>\n
For his part, House Vice Speaker Joseph Deleon Guerrero (Ind-Saipan) noted the other issue of previous unfinished data recovery on the same site by a Japanese developer in the late \u201990s\u2014where an osteologist took a reported 263 human remains for study off-island.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey\u2019ve been gone a long time,\u201d Deleon Guerrero said, adding that their \u201cstatus\u201d needs to be followed up on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Rep. Vinson Sablan (Ind-Saipan) wants to shed light on the whereabouts of the reported 332…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[4007,187,67,44],"class_list":["post-219668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-historic-preservation-office","tag-lower-base","tag-people","tag-study"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219668\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}