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		<title>Sacred Sites, Not Corporate Influence, Deserve Protection</title>
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	After years of court battles, Kohler can begin construction of a luxury golf course on land eligible for the National Register of Historic Places and home to Native burial sites. A federally mandated 2018 archeological study of the original course unearthed human remains in seven locations. Kohler is now exploiting a legal loophole. After the courts revoked [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Sep 2021 05:25:52 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The National Congress of American Indians has called for a ban on the appropriation of Native American images, names and cultural symbols. Schools and sports teams respected the call and retired their Native mascots, which they now recognize as offensive and disrespectful. Evidently, some Wisconsin law enforcement agencies never got the memo. The  Sheboygan Press reports that [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Kohler’s disrespect of indigenous people is par for the course</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Thanks to a Wisconsin Watch investigation, the whole country now knows that indigenous human remains were unearthed where Kohler plans to build their controversial luxury golf course in Sheboygan Wisconsin. Ancestral remains were found in seven locations, and we won’t know if additional remains will be disturbed until the bulldozers begin razing the old-growth forest. The property [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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