The culmination of three years of difficult negotiations, as part of the land transfer agreement, the City of St. Louis will make its first public statement acknowledging Osage sovereignty and the nation's ancestral rights to its sacred sites.
When the French immigrants built what is now St. Louis in the 19th century, they flattened Mississippian mounds by the dozens. Sugarloaf was the only one left standing, and therefore the oldest man-made structure in St. Louis.
In 2023, art and civic organization Counterpublic placed billboards and public digital displays by Native American artists spotlighting the Osage Nation's campaign to repatriate and preserve Sugarloaf Mound. The campaign was successful.
The transfer agreement with private owner Joan Heckenberg leaves only one home remaining on the mound, currently owned by the St. Louis chapter of Kappa Psi, a national pharmaceutical fraternity.
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