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Omaha Steve

(99,582 posts) Fri May 15, 2015, 06:43 AM May 2015

Sacred Native Site to Be Buried by New St. Louis NFL Stadium

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http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2015/04/29/sacred-native-site-be-buried-new-st-louis-nfl-stadium-160186

Rodney Harwood

Change, in the name of progress, has swept across this country since the first Europeans came to America, covering up what was already here along the way.

Now, it appears the artifacts of yet another ancient civilization are going to be paved over with the construction of the new St. Louis stadium on the riverfront near the Edward Jones Dome. The proposed site for the nearly one-billion-dollar stadium happens to be in the vicinity of where a once thriving Native American town with a vast plaza and nearly two dozen earthen mounds existed about 900 years ago. The Cahokian-era civilization is thought to be similar to the well-known Cahokia Mounds in Collinsville, Illinois across the river.

The Osage consider themselves descendants of the mound builders. Any more disturbances of the former mounds — even for research — would be a desecration. Everett Waller, the chairman of the Osage Minerals Council, told ICTMN, “That was our land on the mass of those two rivers. It pre-dated Cahokia. It has been a major pre-historic landmark for the Osage. It wasn’t just us, but we were encamped there for at least 400 years. So much of the history of my family campsites, both oral and educational, come from that area.”

Waller said there is still plenty to learn about the people who lived on this side of the Mississippi in the prehistoric “Mound City.” Most of the mounds were destroyed by the mid-1800s.

FULL story at link.