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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsExaminer.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
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.
the_sly_pig
(740 posts)we must consume. Consuuuuuuuuuuuuuuume.....
Cha
(295,903 posts)Unknown Beatle
(2,672 posts)the dead have no value. Sometimes, where money is concerned, even the living have no value,
Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)n2doc
(47,953 posts)Walmart, our domestic ISIS.
CBGLuthier
(12,723 posts)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)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)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.
conservaphobe
(1,284 posts)Ichingcarpenter
(36,988 posts)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)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).