For two decades, Muscogee Nation has been fighting for their ancestral tribal land.
Members of the nation were forced from their lands and onto the Trail of Tears back in 1836. They left behind the remains of their ancestors on a sacred site, called Hickory Ground — which is north of present-day Montgomery, Alabama, and parts of Georgia.
The Poarch Band of Creek Indians obtained much of that land in the 1980s and in the early 2000s, and its members reportedly excavated the human remains of Muscogee Nation ancestors to make way for a $246 million casino resort. Federal agencies did not intervene.
