Newsweek Magazine OCTOBER 6, 1997
SACRED IS AS SACRED DOES.
That appears to be the opinion of the Oklahoma branch of the Wyandotte tribe, which earlier this month proposed building a high-stakes bingo parlor smack over one of its ancestral burial grounds in nearby Kansas City, Kans. The $4 millon to $5 million building would be elevated on pillars above the Huron Indian Cemetery. But five Kansas tribes-and now the city itself- have sued to stop the project, saying it violates an 1855 treaty ensuring the graveyard’s right to exist. The Wyandottes, however, say they wouldn’t desecrate graves, just relocate about half of them.