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Was benton high school in Saint Joseph missouri built on top of an indian burial ground?
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Missouri State authorities have always had such appallingly little regard for native American sites (including mounds) that there has never been a scientific record made of their locations. Astonishingly, some mounds have only been recognised after they have been damaged or totally destroyed during modern construction projects. Since all native populations were historically removed from Missouri, there are no native voices left to speak up for that important heritage.
The State Historical Preservation Office has knowledge of around 37,000 sites, but this is said to be a tiny fraction of the total number; there is still no official database of the sites.
The story of Benton High School being built on a mound site is just that - a story. There was certainly no excavation on the site, no preservation order or legal protection process; but in 1905 when construction first began nobody was even remotely interested in native sites. If there were one or more mounds there, nobody said anything about them at the time - and anyway they did not have to be burial mounds. Only an archaeological study would have shown what type of mound was involved, and there was no such study.
It is a fact that many construction schemes across Missouri and in many other states of the USA have destroyed native sites; nothing can be done to restore them, but steps must certainly be taken to prevent the same terrible and disrespectful destruction happening in future.
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