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

[icymist]

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.”


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[ms liberty]

1. The capitalists want to destroy everything. n/t

[chillfactor]

2. I hope the stadium becomes haunted....

what a ungodly desecration of Native American culture.....again!

[FLPanhandle]

3. Make the site a park and build the stadium elsewhere

There are probably plenty of other options.

[Liberal_in_LA]

4. exactly

[Scootaloo]

5. Stadiums are the second-largest waste of real estate in this country

Golf courses come in first, parking lots third.

[Art_from_Ark]

8. Number 4:

Abandoned shopping malls

[FLPanhandle]

9. 5. Cemeteries

[Scootaloo]

11. Ironically that's what this stadium is going ot be built on

The average cemetery usually ends up full, and after a while, people stop coming and it stops getting maintained, and becomes another field or bit of woods. Albeit one with big chunky rocks - until someone steals them, or they erode away. I've stumbled on no shortage of such abandoned graveyards in my time hiking in the south, even one up in Alaska. In every case you would have never known it until you whacked your toe on a headstone.

[Taitertots]

22. Things you don't like =\= wasted space

Can religious monuments be the fourth largest waste of real estate?

[bigwillq]

25. Parking lots?

As someone who works and plays in New Haven, CT, I will have to disagree. They need to tear down some old building and build parking lots in that city. Finding a spot is so difficult most times.

[Omaha Steve]

6. PLEASE x post in First Americans

First Americans: http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=forum&id=1191

[icymist]

21. Please, Omaha Steve, do so in my name.

It would greatly honor me. I no where near have as native American in as you guys do. This is yours.

[Oktober]

7. So are the mounds still there and the area is pristine...?

I will say that the no research bit sends up big warning flags to me.

[TexasProgresive]

10. That's sad - now an off topic remark

Is the NFL footing the nearly $1,000,000,000 bill to built this thing?

[LittleBlue]

12. The city/state is contributing $250m or $350m, depending on which source you believe

It will cost roughly $1bn to build

[niyad]

13. what bonehead in the zoning or planning departments got paid off to approve this nonsense?

and does that community really need a billion dollar stadium? at what cost to the taxpayers in subsidies, tax breaks, etc?

[pansypoo53219]

14. fuck sports stadiums. build them to last. NOT DISPOSABLE. OH NOES! its 10 years old!!!

[madamesilverspurs]

15. Stadiums are our new temples,

and professional athletes are the new gods, showered with absurd amounts of money. We prize the ability to throw a ball above an aptitude for teaching, and there's no way that can end well.

[PatrynXX]

16. ISIL invade Missouri while I wasn't watching :(

ironic!! sorry not saying Isis thats a god ... and the names of some great cats I know

[cstanleytech]

17. Why dont they just tear down an abandoned mall or something and build it there??

[Hoppy]

18. FuxamatterwithUguys?

This will be a place where the football team can trot out soldiers to honor for heroism.

Don't you appreciate what our military men do for you?

[oldandhappy]

19. Another monument to the god of sport.

Those who build the stadium will see it as amazing. Little to they know that eventually it also will be destroyed in the name of future progress. Wish the area could be preserved as a park. I thot the sacred lands of the native americans were protected from this rape.

[name not needed]

20. Will the Rams have to sleep there the first night?

[pintobean]

23. A pic of the site

This is the first I've heard of this claim. This is a flat, industrial area that had been developed long ago. St. Louis was called Mound City due to all the burial mounds, so there may be some validity to the claim. I just find it odd that the claim to the property is coming now, when it's in demand and has value.



Here's an interactive pic that shows what is currently there.
http://www.closr.it/canvas/3547/#/spot

[F4lconF16]

24. So tired of sports in this country...

The idols, the fetishizing of winning, the sheer waste of money, the blind patriotism, the uber-nationalism, the promotion of the American myth, the exclusion from society of those who don't participate...

Just tired of it, that's all.

[potone]

26. That is exactly the way that I feel.

I have men friends who have told me that football was the bane of their youth. In high school in much of this country, boys who aren't interested in sports (especially violent sports) have a miserable time of it.

[Kali]

27. sometimes paving actually preserves sites better than excavation

and since research now seems to = desecration...

[Go Vols]

28. The current stadium is 20 years old

and looked fine last I was there.