Kleis Site Explained

Kleis Site
Nearest City:	Hamburg, New York
Added:	April 20, 1979
Refnum:	79001580

Kleis Site is an historic archeological site located at Hamburg in Erie County, New York. The site contains the remnants of a 17th-century Iroquoian village and burial ground, and is one of a small number of Native American villages on the Niagara Frontier.^[1] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

Notes and References

1. Web site: LANDMARK SETTLEMENT PROTECTS NATIVE BURIAL SITE: Spitzer Suit First Under Federal Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act. 2009-07-30. Media Center issuances (18 July 2000). New York State Attorney General.