sentences:  After renting a tractor, the ten individuals spent two months destroying hundreds of Native American graves, Mississippian culture houses, and unknown other artifacts.Local complaints by the people of Uniontown led to the arrest of the perpetrators for the misdemeanor of "desecrating a venerable object" (a charge which is now a felony, in part due to the controversy over Slack Farm).Prosecution on this charge was difficult in the late 1980s, in part because this predated the passage of the "Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act" and related state legislation, which made it clearer that such activities were illegal.