School urged to drop telescope project

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 16, 2002

The Minnesota Indian Affairs Council has asked the University of Minnesota not to get involved in a telescope project located at an Arizona site considered sacred to a number of tribes

The council, made up of 11 tribal leaders, said the school should refuse a share in the Mount Graham telescope. The school received $5 million from Hubbard Broadcasting Inc. to get involved.

Tribes in the southwest consider Mount Graham sacred and have battled the University of Arizona over the observatory.

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Relevant Links:
Minnesota Indian Affairs Council - http://www.indians.state.mn.us/index.html
Mount Graham: Sacred Mountain, Sacred Ecosystem - http://www.seac.org/seac-sw/mtg.htm
Mount Graham International Observatory - http://mgpc3.as.arizona.edu