Iroquois burial mound being desecrated at the Estates of Serenity Cemetery in Marion, Indiana. This women now has full knowledge that her stone is on sacred grounds, but has not agreed to remove it. When she is buried, the mound will be destroyed in the process. The owner of the cemetery also refuses to remove the stone.
Update
July, 2012
The burial mound is going to have the stone removed and the other two mounds have been saved from being destroyed as burial plots. Since it was necessary to contact the DNR to have the cemetery owner remove the stone, they in turn are going to send university archaeologists from IPFW to dig into the mounds in search of skeletal remains. Iroquois burial mounds generally do not contain skeletal remains because the dead were cremated.
This is an Iroquois burial and should be protected by the Native American Graves Protection Act. But, IPFW archaeologist will not claim it to be Iroquois and thus skirt the law. If they did claim it to be Iroquois then they would have to return all of the artifacts they have plundered from burial mounds in the northern part of the state of Indiana and self incriminate themselves.
June 5, 2011
Heard from the DNR that IPFW had not requested to dig into the mounds at the cemetery in Marion. Keeping in mind that they could if they wanted to.
