Alabama city destroying ancient Indian mound for Sam's Club

ISS ^ | 04 Aug 2009 | Sue Sturgis

[BGHater]

[BGHater]

sigh. Maybe for inventory.

[the invisib1e hand]

isn't that a happy little logo!

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About the article: civilized people don't mess with the dead.

[bamahead]

PING

[MHGinTN]

Margaret Searcy must be turning over in her grave with anger!

[Pajamajan]

Messing with Indian Burial/Sacred Ground= Bad Idea.

Next will be stories about it raining frogs at this Sam's Club, or worse.........

[240B]

Bad medicine
Bad juju
Bad karma

Bet the Sams is defunct within a year.

[JimRed]

If the indians had a bigger defense budget in the 1500s, they’d still own this continent!

[LALALAW]

It’s a good thing. It’s about Jobs, Jobs Jobs, Jobs and Jobs. - N.Pelosi

[Ultra Sonic 007]

They’d have been better off with modern medicine. The first forays of Europeans into the New World brought with them the diseases of the Old World; Indian communes were ravaged.

By the time heavy-duty colonization began in the 17th century, most of the Indians had already been wiped out.

[qwertypie]

Hogwash. If they can tear down “culturally-significant” Hollywood Park racetrack for commercial reasons, then anything goes.

[PureSolace]

Hey! That’s how the movie Poltergeist started!

[Grizzled Bear]

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.

Let's prevent economic development over what may be. There are concerns that human remains may be present at the site, though none have been found yet. But there may be!

The force behind the project is Oxford's Commercial Development Authority, a public board that uses taxpayer money to lure businesses to the area.

How dare those evil bastards lure businesses into the area and offer employment and economic prosperity!

Seriously, the area has been surveyed. Any genuine artifacts or remains would have successfully halted the project.

Get a grip!

[dragonblustar]

Hey! That’s how the movie Poltergeist started!

Exactly.

[packrat35]

Every friggin mound of dirt is NOT an Indian burial ground. In fact, they is no proof that any burials took place there.

[DennisR]

If it is so important to the Indians, let them buy it and preserve it themselves. Kind of like the rest of us would have to do.

[barker]

That’s how the movie Poltergeist started!

LOL That was my first thought too. No way I'd go in there.

[Gargantua]

"A local resident named Johnny Rollins told the Anniston Star how his Native American grandmother taught him that when she died he could "go to that mountain" to talk to her..."

Yeah? And how's that working out for you, Johnny? What's Grandma got to say these days about DJ Jazzy Prezzy Zer0banana?

My Granny told me that when she died, Johnny's tribe would give me $1 Million a year from their Casino. Where's my money, Johnny? C'mon, Kemosabé, turn your head to the left and cough. N'kay?

Hey, I have a great idea! Have a local news crew film you standing a distance away from Granny's dirt hill, looking at it with a tear running down your face...

...wouldn't that be awesome?! Now where's my million$?

;-/

[Arrowhead1952]

Something I’ll never do is touch a mound or burial ground ping.

[GingisK]

If it is so important to the Indians, let them buy it and preserve it themselves.

Wow! You'd fit in well in th olden days. Steal their land and then sell it back to them! Mr. Forked Tounge himself.