The Poarch Band of Creek
Indians in Alabama won't grant access to its casino site for a ceremony on Thursday.
The tribe spending $246 million on a new Wind Creek Wetumpka.
Opponents want to hold a prayer ceremony at the site, which is home to Hickory Ground,
a Creek cemetery.
“We traveled here from Oklahoma to perform a peaceful ceremony for our ancestors,” Wayland Gray, a member of Hickory Ground Tribal Town, said in a statement. “Their remains may have been excavated, but their spirits remain.”
The tribe, however, says it already conducted a ceremony last year.
Creek ancestors were removed at the site and reburied.
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