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Algernon Moncrieff

(5,780 posts)
Fri Jul 11, 2014, 12:07 AM Jul 2014

Examiner.com: Wal-Mart announces grand opening of Sam's Club that was built on sacred site

Complete article at: http://www.examiner.com/article/wal-mart-announces-grand-opening-of-sam-s-club-that-was-built-on-sacred-site

Native Americans are outraged and have held protests against the mound's demolition. Someone even altered a nearby road sign of the Leon Smith Parkway to read "Indian Mound Parkway."

Local resident Johnny Rollins is furious about the mound being torn down. His Native American grandmother taught him when he was younger, that after she died, he could go on that mountain to talk to her.

"She knew she was going to die. She said any time I wanted to talk to her, go to that mountain. It seems like it's taking part of you away. I always felt I had ties to that there," Rollins told the Anniston Star.

City leaders have changed their story and now claim that they have never used the dirt as fill. But some local residents have witnessed construction workers hauling dirt from the mound to the Sam's Club development site.

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Examiner.com: Wal-Mart announces grand opening of Sam's Club that was built on sacred site (Original Post) Algernon Moncrieff Jul 2014 OP
We are not put on this earth to believe... the_sly_pig Jul 2014 #1
OH wow.. not good medicine. :( Cha Jul 2014 #2
Where money is concerned, Unknown Beatle Jul 2014 #3
...The Samsclubityville Horror?... Ken Burch Jul 2014 #4
Poltergeistclub. Eleanors38 Jul 2014 #5
Interestingly enough, there is another post about ISIS threatening archeological sites in Iraq n2doc Jul 2014 #6
What amuses me about issues like this CBGLuthier Jul 2014 #7
True this Algernon Moncrieff Jul 2014 #8
those very same people you mention, onethatcares Jul 2014 #9
I wish I believed in ghosts. nt conservaphobe Jul 2014 #10
Some North American Mounds are older than the Great Pyramid Ichingcarpenter Jul 2014 #11
We also know that there were fairly advanced civilizations in what is now the SW US in 2000 BC Algernon Moncrieff Jul 2014 #12

Unknown Beatle

(2,672 posts)
3. Where money is concerned,
Fri Jul 11, 2014, 02:32 AM
Jul 2014

the dead have no value. Sometimes, where money is concerned, even the living have no value,

n2doc

(47,953 posts)
6. Interestingly enough, there is another post about ISIS threatening archeological sites in Iraq
Fri Jul 11, 2014, 07:27 AM
Jul 2014

Walmart, our domestic ISIS.

CBGLuthier

(12,723 posts)
7. What amuses me about issues like this
Fri Jul 11, 2014, 07:29 AM
Jul 2014

Is that the very same people who will tell every christian they are a fool and laugh at all institutionalized religion will take the side of the indians because they are "spiritual" people.

Algernon Moncrieff

(5,780 posts)
8. True this
Sun Jul 13, 2014, 11:33 AM
Jul 2014

However, I think if Wal-Mart had tried to build on, for example, a pioneer cemetery that was previously unknow, there's be an outcry.

onethatcares

(16,133 posts)
9. those very same people you mention,
Sun Jul 13, 2014, 11:56 AM
Jul 2014

wouldn't want to see bulldozers, loaders and dump trucks taking topsoil from the back yard of the rectory or convent either.

My understanding that we are all part of the Earth and have a duty to live with it is a lot different than teaching about a great love

that casts one into fiery hells.

but what do I know, I'm just a silly old carpenter.

Ichingcarpenter

(36,988 posts)
11. Some North American Mounds are older than the Great Pyramid
Sun Jul 13, 2014, 12:05 PM
Jul 2014

We don't really know what are buried in some of them.


Lucky Unesco gave safe status to this one in Louisiana, otherwise Jindal or some idiot would put a development, Walmart or freeway there

this is older than the pyramids.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/12291469


This is a travesty not just to native americans but to the history of the world.

Algernon Moncrieff

(5,780 posts)
12. We also know that there were fairly advanced civilizations in what is now the SW US in 2000 BC
Sun Jul 13, 2014, 05:38 PM
Jul 2014

The understanding of most Americans about the tribes of the US are the semi-nomadic plains Indians of the Midwest, and the tribes the settlers encountered on the East Coast. You are correct: we have a poor understanding of what was going on before Europeans showed up (which is another topic we really don't understand -- given that the Vikings were in North America long before Columbus).

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