UNIONTOWN, Ky. Uniontown, Ky., residents are preparing to mark one of the nation's most notorious cases of American Indian grave desecration.
American Indians from across the country are expected to converge on the small Union County community this Memorial Day weekend to purify themselves in sweat lodges, offer prayers and burn tobacco offerings in an ongoing effort to make peace with the spirits of their ancestors.
It will be 20 years this fall since those spirits were disturbed from their long sleep.
In 1987, 10 men from Kentucky, Indiana and Illinois paid the owner of a farm at the edge of town, near where the Ohio and Wabash rivers converge, $10,000 to dig for artifacts.
They dug in a burial ground for a Native American village archaeologists believe was established in the 1400s and inhabited until 1700 or later. Known since the mid-1800s when the Smithsonian Institution sponsored a limited dig there for artifacts still housed in the Washington, D.C., museum the site was on what was known locally as the Slack Farm.
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