Protect the Camposanto
Channel: Big Bend Conservation Alliance
Date: 2022-02-23

We need your help to protect Cementerio del Barrio de los Lipanes, a sacred site to the Lipan Apache Tribe. 

Donate: https://www.gofundme.com/f/protect-the-camposanto

In the past year, Big Bend Conservation Alliance partnered with the Lipan Apache Tribe and family descendants to obtain a historical marker from the Texas Historical Commission; create a public education campaign to raise site awareness; recover the cairns, or rocks, which act as sentinels to protect each grave; and have ownership of the land transferred back to the Tribe.

There is more work to be done to protect this historic site in Presidio. Today, we are raising funds to create a rock wall to offer protection from residential encroachment while serving three purposes: prevent erosion of the burial mound, limit trespassing, and teach visitors about the site's Indigenous history directly from Indigenous voices.

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