• Tour an Ancient Indigenous Trading Path At Risk from Development
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  • ICYMI: New Modern Indian Restaurants in Wake County
  • Anti-ICE Protests Today Across the Triangle
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Good morning, readers.

The forthcoming Buc-ee’s in Mebane has a new claim to fame: it’s been cited as a threat to an ancient Indigenous trading route that, in November, was named to the World Monuments Watch list—a catalog of historic places facing threats from climate change, development, tourism, and war.

Whether the mega gas station is actually being built on the Occoneechi Great Trading Path is disputed; a 1997 state survey found no evidence of the path on the property. 

The tribal member who filed the World Monuments application says she can’t “claim absolute certainty about one parcel,” but argues the area constitutes a historically significant Indigenous landscape regardless—and Buc-ee’s aside, there’s no dispute that the path generally faces threats from development.

The path was one of only two U.S. sites to make the list last year, and one of 25 total. 

Read more below. Have a good Tuesday.

—Lena

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