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Tucked away in St. Louis, Missouri, in a southern section of the city, just between the Mississippi

River and Interstate 55, there's a historic landmark. But you'd never know it. It's on a road

that's easy to miss, and frankly, pretty beat up. There's not much along it, a billboard,

a couple of generic industrial buildings. Driving down it can make someone like our senior

editor, Elychen, wonder if they're even in the right place. Wait, this is it.

In front of her is a small 40-foot hill. It has two tiers, a lower one with a one-story

house on top, and a higher one covered in weeds and bushes. A short flight of concrete

stairs leads up the side of the taller one, but access is restricted by a chain-linked

fence around the property. A sign on a nearby telephone pole makes it clear. It says

no trespassing, and it's marked with the seal of the Osage Nation.

The descendants of the people that live there are still very much alive and well. We just

happen to be over in Oklahoma. Andrea Hunter is a member of Osage Nation. She's an archaeologist

and directs the tribe's historic preservation office. This hill is actually a mound built

by American Indians. We don't know exactly how old it is, but it could be more than a

thousand years old. Later in the 18th century, people who settled in St. Louis called it

Sugarloaf Mound, because they thought it had a similar shape to the hard loaves that

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