Tribe interested in buying last mound in Mound City.
Many potential buyers have shown interest in the Sugarloaf Mound property since it went on the market. "It's mostly people interested in riverfront property," said Leigh Maibes of Circa Properties Inc., which has listed the property since November. "A lot of people don't even know that it's a mound."
However, the owners, Walter and Eileen Strosnider, prefer the buyer have an interest in preserving the 40-foot-high Indian mound at 4420 Ohio Ave. They could get their wish if the Osage Nation Congress votes to buy it.
The congress ended its session on June 3 without appropriating funding to purchase the property, but the tribe could still act to buy it. One potential buyer holds an exclusive option on purchasing the property until Aug. 5. Maibes could not disclose whether that party is the Osage Nation.
The Osage people believe their ancestors built the mounds in the St. Louis area, including those at Cahokia Mounds in Collinsville, Ill., said Andrea Hunter, director of the Osage Nation Historic Preservation Office in Pawhuska, Okla. They look to the oral traditions of their people for proof.
For more, including oral tradition of the Osage, see St. Louis' Suburban Journals.
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