1936 News Reports on the Anacostan Remains Emailed to Bolling Base

9/12/19

Dear Ms Kelty,

Attached are 3 news articles from 1936 reporting on the Anacostan remains that were found on the Base.

The source of these items and a more extensive discussion of the ossuaries found at Bolling can be found in this 1999 book by Dennis Curry, Feast of the Dead: Aboriginal Ossuaries in Maryland.

Until you correct me about the absence of any historical markers on the Base regarding its extensive Native history, I will continue to discuss it as I have in this recent letter in the Washington Post (attached).

Best wishes,

Armand 

Armand Lione, Ph.D.

Director,

DC Native History Project

“Ancient Cemetery in Anacostia Yields Bones Held Prehistoric,” Washington Post, p. 1, September 11, 1936

The Washington Star 1936a "Skeletons Unearthed at Bolling Field" B1, September 11, 1936.

Letter to The Editor, "Remember The Anacostans" Armand Lione & Robert Engelman, Washington Post. A 17, September 7, 2019.