The Anniston Star has a neat profile piece on an area of Calhoun County, Alabama, which is chock full of Native American earthworks. One particular site has made the news lately because it was nearly bulldozed in the name of development. The city planned to demolish the hill that the thousand-year-old mound sits on, to use the dirt as fill under a new Sam's Club being built in Oxford.
A private landowner now says that "a contractor hired to do the site preparation for Sam's is ordering the dirt from him instead." However, that doesn't mean that the city is going to make any efforts to preserve the mound in the future.
The article delves into some of the issues facing these sacred sites, which are found all over North America. The battle between development and preservation is a tricky one, in particular since there seems to be a perception that if a site doesn't contain artifacts, it's less culturally significant. Anyway, props to Dan Whisenhunt for an informative and interesting article about how quickly these sacred sites are disappearing in the name of progress.
How dare they. These places need to be preserved for the future generations. I mean, just because there are no artifacts does not mean the place isn’t sacred.
We actually discussed this in the forum a while back. Or… it started out that way and died the inevitable death of thread decay.
Such a vulgar…
Can’t people understand that it’s the land itself that is held sacred?
the land is what is sacred as mother earth,this just confirms how we can stand up by not buying from which ever company would do this type of destruction.