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Board of Aldermen unanimously adopts resolution recognizing Osage Nation Sugarloaf Mound preservation plan
Summary
The St. Louis Board of Aldermen adopted Resolution 109 to recognize the Osage Nation’s Sugarloaf Mound Preservation Plan and acknowledged recent property transfers enabling long-term preservation and plans for an interpretive center.
The St. Louis Board of Aldermen on the floor adopted Resolution 109, recognizing the Osage Nation Sugarloaf Mound Preservation Plan and formally acknowledging the nation’s ancestral rights to the site in the city’s Eighth Ward.
The resolution matters because it recognizes the sovereignty and historical connection of the Osage Nation to land inside St. Louis and confirms recent transfers of properties on the mound that the city and the nation say will allow preservation work and development of an interpretive center.
Alderwoman from the eighth, sponsor of the resolution, told the board the measure “recogniz[es] the sovereignty of the Osage Nation with ancestral rights to a sacred site in the Eighth…
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