Graves Protection and Repatriation
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This handwritten letter from A. Zaile Thorla to John Thomas was sent on March 26, 1988. Thorla recounts attending a presentation by Thomas at Capital University in Columbus, Ohio. He offers a donation to assist with the reburial efforts in Uniontown, Kentucky and requests a copy of a poem spoken by Thomas at the event.
Publication Date
3-26-1988
Document Type
Correspondence
City
Columbus, Ohio
Keywords
John Thomas, poem, Capital University, Uniontown, Kentucky, grave desecration
Language
English
Sender
A. Zaile Thorla
Recipient
John Thomas
Disciplines
Indigenous Studies | Native American Studies | Political History | Social History | United States History
Recommended Citation
Thorla, A. Zaile, "Letter From A. Zaile Thorla to John Thomas, March 26, 1988" (1988). Graves Protection and Repatriation. 55.
https://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/john_thomas_nagpra/55
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Identifier
Box 1, Folder 28, Item M
Transcription
Mar. 26, 1988
John Thomas, Ex. Director
The Reburial Committee
P.O. Box 89 Uniontown, KY 42461
Dear Mr. Thomas,
I attended your presentation at Capital University last evening and am dismayed at the number of "clods" who have plundered graves in their greed for artifacts. I am grieved that there are so many vultures in my white race. Accept my small contribution in your effort to reinter the remains of those once buried in the Uniontown site.
You ended with a soliloquy or poem which I could not hear fully since I'm walking around with 80 yr. old ears. Would you mind sending it in written form to me in the enclosed stamped envelope. It was telling us that we might reap the same in the far distant future.
Sincerely,
A . Zaile Thorla
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