The mounds on Quincy’s bluff date from 200 B.C. to 1000 A.D. Fifty years after John Wood bought land for the cemetery, E. J. Parker, president of the Quincy Boulevard and Park Association ...

Cars drive along a road near one of the Twin Mounds, at right, at Fort Ancient Earthworks on Sep. 19, 2023, in Ohio. (AP Photo/Joshua A. Bickel) ...

"These mounds date back to the middle of the Woodland Period and are about 2,000 years old," Schurr said. "These particular mounds were first recorded in 1834 when they did the first land surveys." ...

“I am a voice for 19 American Indian cultures,” he wrote in part of the composition. “I am the protector of 2500 year old American Indian burial and ceremonial mounds.

Although digging up Indian burial mounds is illegal today, it definitely wouldn’t have been in 1933, said Bonnie Styles, director of the Illinois State Museum in Springfield.