ST. LOUIS — More than 100 mounds built by Native Americans once sat on the land that is now St. Louis before European settlers destroyed them. The last remaining mound is now officially in the hands of its rightful owners.
Sugarloaf Mound is the oldest human-made structure located within St. Louis’ city boundaries at 4420 Ohio Avenue. The city’s Board of Aldermen recently voted to support its full transfer back to the Osage Nation.
The unanimously approved resolution was also the city’s first formal acknowledgment of a sovereign Native Nation with ancestral ties to the land within the city, according to a press release from civic exhibition group Counterpublic…