city officials ignore calls to save 1,500-year-old Indian-built mound
http://blog.al.com/spotnews/2009/07/oxford_city_officials_ignore_c.html
Destroy an Indian-built mound for a shopping facility? What could possibly go wrong?
Maybe it’s not a burial mound…Just a big pile of rocks.
These people have never been to the movies, clearly.
Gosh, I just love progress!
Hmm… Dale debating Dale… this could be fun! Pass the popcorn.
My debates with myself always end up with nothing but bitter, mutual recriminations and loathing.
Amityville Horror was on TV last night…
I know the feeling…
Slan,
D. 
yeah…so 
Sometimes I win…
Slan,
D. 
I know. What an excellent premise that’s already been used in some form or other about 28 times. But see…this time it could be based on actual events!
The city paid to have part of the hill taken down for fill at a Sam’s Club.
I find this to be the telling detail - It’s on that says it all, really, & really sums up the deep well of understanding and respect that must underlie Alabamans’ attitudes toward scholarship, native heritage, and the past.
Although I note the link says mound, not burial mound. Do we know for sure what its purpose was?
This is why they removed the Creeks, the Chickasaws, the Seminoles, the Choctaws, and the Cherokees. These people just knew they could make better use of the land.
Oklahoma had to make strict laws about it after a mining company blasted one of the most important mound sites in the Southern United States, at Spiro, Oklahoma, looting the treasures and leaving remains scattered over the ground. The WPA then excavated it in a more scientific manner, and now it’s a state park.
At least our children know what desecration means.
Stone Henge is just a pile of stones.
It reminds me of the Seven Sisters, a prehistoric barrow near my parent’s home in England.
Most of these places are scheduled in the UK.
Doesn’t the US have provisions to protect ancient monuments?
I read a short story once about an Indian tribe that had all kinds of horrible things happen to them, and it turned out they had built their burial ground…on another Indian burial ground..
And then this bunch of immigrants from New Delhi built their burial ground on top of that…
Though my home state has its problems, it would not do that. A single burial site often results in a protected area, usually marked by boulders to block any kind of vehicle traffic and such. I find it incredible in 2009 that this would happen…
Alabama has somewhat problematic leadership at almost all levels.