Muscogee Nation

A federal appeals court revived a lawsuit filed by one Native American tribe over another’s construction of a casino on what they said is sacred land. The Oklahoma-based Muscogee Nation sued Alabama’s Poarch Band of Creek Indians and others over the casino. The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday vacated a judge’s decision that dismissed the lawsuit.

An appeals court on Wednesday heard arguments in a long-running dispute between two federally recognized tribes over one’s construction of a casino on Alabama land that the other says is a sacred site. The dispute involves land, known as Hickory Ground.

The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals will hear arguments on Wednesday in the Muscogee Nation’s appeal of the dismissal of a lawsuit challenging the construction of Wind Creek Casino in Wetumpka. The dispute is between the tribe and Alabama’s Poarch Band of Creek Indians.

Prayers and songs of remembrance carried across the grassy field in Alabama where more than 800 Muscogee warriors, women and children perished in 1814 while defending their homeland from United States forces.

The Muscogee (Creek) Nation has asked a federal appellate court to reinstate its lawsuit against the Poarch Creek Band of Indians and Auburn University for improperly removing graves from a sacred site in Alabama to build a casino.

(Information in the following story is from: Montgomery Advertiser, http://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com) A Native American tribe in Oklahoma has filed a…

Leaders of the Poarch Band of Creek Indians have agreed to stop construction of a planned 20-story hotel and casino in Wetumpka. The Poarch Band and the…