Sacred Sites Worth the Fight. -Sheena Louise Roetman

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In Wetumpka, Ala., a Muscogee burial ground called Hickory Ground, or Oce Vpofv, is being illegally desecrated with excavation and development. Although this land is protected by the National Register of Historic Places, Archeological Resources Protection Act and under the rights of lineal descendents portion of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, it is none-the-less being turned […]read more

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