Crying Out for Rocky Woods

Metacomet's  Manitou Hussunash -  or "King Philip's Cave"

Photo – Sera Bray

"Then the solar company came with chainsaws and shovels

And they tortured the timber and stripped all the land

Well, they drilled for their footings till the land was forsaken

Then they wrote it all down as the progress of man.

- With apologies to John Prine (Paradise)

http://www.greenfutures.org/?content=igqphu7cspWYFwtS

   When Cora Pierce writes, and posts photos documenting the Ethnic Cleansing of a Sacred Site in East Freetown MA, stating that "Burrego Solar Farm with a 20 year lease... they flagged all the “ Culturally Significant “ areas, after they clear cut & graded Rocky Woods. The Vernal pools are destroyed and all the culverts they put in were useless. It is Shameful that they destroyed such a significant Ceremonial Landscape for the almighty dollar... yes, the things I loose sleep over..." I know exactly what she means, how she feels, even if I am not of Indigenous descent as Cora is.
    And I'll ask once again, daring to use the term Ethnic Cleansing when I ask, "How is this not Ethnic Cleansing?"
     I was going to say, "I don't mean to be harsh," but actually I do.
     I'll add that the term was first coined in 1991 (about when began exploring probable Indigenous stonework around one of two historically known Pootatuck Villages), but that practice began long ago in Human History and it arrived on the shores of what is now known as Massachusetts in 1620. 
     When it ends is anybody's guess...

"Ethnic cleansing is the systematic forced removal of ethnic or racial groups from a given territory by a more powerful ethnic group, often with the intent of making it ethnically homogeneous.^{[1][page needed]} The forces applied may be various forms of forced migration (deportation, population transfer), intimidation, as well as genocide and genocidal rape.
      
Ethnic cleansing is usually accompanied with efforts to remove physical and cultural evidence of the targeted group in the territory through the destruction of homes, social centers, farms, and infrastructure, and by the desecration of monuments, cemeteries, and places of worship." 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_cleansing