Oklahoma-based tribe The Muscogee (Creek) Nation has renewed its legal efforts against the Wind Creek Casino and Resort, appealing to reinstate its lawsuit against the Alabama casino.
The Muscogee filed its suit against the Poach Band of Indians and Auburn University for allegedly desecrating an Alabama gravesite sacred to the tribe.
Muscogee will “not stop until our ancestors have received justice”
In a press release Friday, Principal Chief David Hill stated the Muscogee will “not stop until our ancestors have received justice and this sacred site is preserved from any further desecration.”
Hill and other tribe members have since 2012 contended that entities wrongly built the casino on ground sacred to the Muscogee before the feds forced them to quit Oklahoma for Alabama nearly 200 years ago.
The tribe’s Friday appeal to the 11th Circuit US Court of Appeals in Atlanta reinstates the allegation that, under Poach control, workers improperly removed 57 sets of human remains and their associated artifacts from the site.
