Alabama city destroying ancient Indian mound for Sam's Club "Fill Dirt"

[L. Coyote]

"Oxford officials are pressing ahead ... Mayor Smith said ... "What it's going to be is more prettier than it is today." ..."

By Sue Sturgis on August 4, 2009
http://www.southernstudies.org/2009/08/alabama-city-destroying-ancient-indian-mound-for-sams-club.html

City leaders in Oxford, Ala. have approved the destruction of a 1,500-year-old Native American ceremonial mound and are using the dirt as fill for a new Sam's Club, a retail warehouse store operated by Wal-Mart.

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the Alabama Historical Commission disagrees, noting that the structure meets at least three criteria for inclusion: its "association with a broad pattern of history," architecture "embodying distinctive characteristics," and for the information it might yield to scholars.

The site is also significant to Native Americans. The Woodland and Mississippian cultures that inhabited the Southeast and Midwest before Europeans arrived constructed and used these mounds for various rituals, which may have included funerals. There are concerns that human remains may be present at the site, though none have been found yet.

United South and Eastern Tribes, a nonprofit coalition of 25 federally recognized tribes from Maine to Texas, passed a resolution in 2007 calling for the preservation of such structures, which it calls "prayer in stone." Native Americans have held protests against the mound's demolition ....

[Doremus]

1. I hope they've filed suit to stop it. nt

[Up2Late]

2. Why am I not really surprised by this?

Why am I not really surprised by this?

Terrible, they should be ashamed, but are probably not.:mad:

[The Doctor.]

3. PFFT! It's not like desecrating sacred Native Burial Grounds ever hurt anyone...

[zbdent]

4. look for the damages done by the spirits to be attributed to

"liberal terrorists" ...

[The Doctor.]

8. 'Spirits' flow through us all...

They are a form of super-consciousness borne upon our collective understanding... and outrage.

People that fuck with that suffer.

Too bad the freeptards can't grasp that.

[BOG PERSON]

5. It's a metaphor for the past 400 years of settlement in North America.

Of course you couldn't stop at physical genocide, you had to go the whole hog and carry out an anthropological genocide too...

[L. Coyote]

6. Getting rid of the pesky evidence is part of covering up history.

[newtothegame]

7. I will be shell-shocked if this repression of Native Americans gets even 1% the attention on here...

that Gates did, or the kid with the monkey sign, or the Obama witch doctor photo.

[TheWatcher]

9. Didn't you hear?

Paula's Leaving American Idol.

Man, you need to keep your priorities straight.

Don't you realize that an Iconic Celebrity could die at any minute and be in desperate need of canonization for two to three weeks?

FOCUS!

:sarcasm:

[asdjrocky]

10. They paved paradise...

[L. Coyote]

12. and then they said, "See, there never was a Paradise."

[DCKit]

11. Soon to be Sam's "Most Haunted Store".

The bad Karma alone is going to doom it. Assholes.

[ensho]

13. Oxford officials are sick bastards

vote them out of office after indicting them.

[LeftinOH]

14. Like any other town in the US, does Oxford AL already have EMPTY big-box stores sitting around..?

-not to mention acres of unused parking lots? The unwillingness on the part of owners and developers to repurpose existing (and empty) big boxes and their associated parking lots is...criminal.

[L. Coyote]

18. They just demolished the old Sams Club, to move to suburbia.

[scheming daemons]

15. Didn't these people see the Poltergeist movies???? Are they nuts?

[Gidney N Cloyd]

16. Wasn't this a Simpsons episode?

[H2O Man]

17. If those opposed to the

destruction do not oppose it in court, it would be a shame. I've been involved in cases similar to this in NYS, and am familiar with how it can be accomplished.