Sacred Native American Cave Sold Off to Highest Bidder

On the walls of Picture Cave in eastern Missouri is a 1,000 year old Native American artwork. The cave, along with the 43 acres surrounding it, was sold yesterday by the Busch family to an anonymous buyer at auction for $2.2 million.
The Picture Cave and its surrounding land are some of the foremost sites of Native American art in the country, and are incredibly precious to the Osage Nation. Along with the eight other tribes of Missouri, the Osage Nation was pushed out of the state as a result o