Alabama city plows Indian site for Sam's Club

OXFORD, Ala. (AP) - Bucket loaders and bulldozers are tearing apart a hill that researchers call the foundation of an ancient Native American site to provide fill dirt for a Sam's Club store, a move that appalls preservationists.
Tribal advocates and state officials say a large stone mound that tops the 200-foot rise was put there a millennium ago by Indians during a religious observance. It is similar to rock mounds found up and down the Eastern Seaboard, historians say, and likely dates to Indians of the Woodlands period that ended in 1000 A.D. Continued

Photo: Hand cut from mica from the Hopewell Mound Group (NPS via Wikipedia).