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Books on: mound building indians

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Mound Builders of Ancient America: The Archaeology of a Myth

Book by Robert Silverberg; New York Graphic Society, 1968

Subjects:

Mound-Builders, Mounds--United States, United States--Antiquities

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Vaca, almost certainly saw mound-building Indians, but left no hint of them...out of the country of the mound-building Indians; now they saw tepee-dwelling...a lengthy exposure to the mound-building Indians of Florida, Georgia, the...
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Town Creek Indian Mound: A Native American Legacy

Book by Joffre Lanning Coe; University of North Carolina Press, 1995

Subjects:

Excavations (Archaeology)--North Carolina, Indians Of North America--North Carolina--Antiquities, Mississippian Culture--North Carolina, North Carolina--Antiquities, Town Creek Site (N.C.)

Collections: History, Entire Library

Written for visitors as well as for scholars, this book provides an overview of the site and the archaeological techniques pioneered there, surveys the history of the excavations, and features more than 200 photographs and maps. The book carefully reconstructs the archaeological record, including ...
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Written for visitors as well as for scholars, this book provides an overview of the site and the archaeological techniques pioneered there, surveys the history of the excavations, and features more than 200 photographs and maps. The book carefully reconstructs the archaeological record, including plant and animal remains, pottery sherds, stone tools, and clay ornaments. In a concluding interpretive section, Coe reflects on what Town Creek and its artifacts tell us about this ancient Native American society.
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Peachtree Mound and Village Site, Cherokee County, North Carolina

Book by Frank M. Setzler, Jesse D. Jennings, T. D. Stewart; 1941

Subjects:

Cherokee County (N.C.)--Antiquities, Indians Of North America--North Carolina--Antiquities, Mounds--North Carolina--Cherokee County

Collections: History, Entire Library

...represented by the mound-building group, and other...proto- historic Indians, constitute the problem...probably during the building of the secondary mound. The internal evidence...occupation before the building of the mound. The homogeneous...
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The Transformation of the Southeastern Indians, 1540-1760

Book by Robbie Ethridge, Charles Hudson; University Press of Mississippi, 2002

Subjects:

Indians Of North America--Southern States--Social Conditions--16th Century--Congresses, Indians Of North America--Southern States--Social Conditions--17th Century--Congresses, Indians Of North America--Southern States--Social Conditions--18th Century--Congresses

Collections: History, Entire Library

...referred to the Indians of the old South...themselves were avidly building and promoting the...their territory, building heavily fortified...and other northern Indians exchanged furs for...institutional means for building larger coalescent...interior populations of Indians than did the Virginia...
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William Bartram on the Southeastern Indians

Book by Gregory A. Waselkov, Kathryn E. Holland Braund; University of Nebraska Press, 1995

Subjects:

Bartram, William--1739-1823--Journeys--Southern States, Indians Of North America--Southern States, Southern States--Description And Travel--Early Works To 1800

Collections: History, Entire Library

...noted another large Indian mound site. 65 On 66 Egmont...so named from that nation of Indians, who took shelter here, after...the name "Lower Creeks" to Indians living in Florida who were...depredations, committed by the Indians upon the traders, which the...

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Journal Articles on: mound building indians

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Red Mothers and White Milk: Maternal Lactation and American Indians in Post-Revolutionary France

Journal article by Alice Weinreb; West Virginia University Philological Papers, Vol. 52, 2005

Subjects:

Breast milk--Portrayals, Breast milk--Social aspects, French literature--Criticism and interpretation, Native Americans--Portrayals

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...imperialism. By examining this painting (a rare Delacroix image of Indians, and the only extant image from Atala that depicts neither...complexities of constructing national identity at the moment of empire-building. The most striking discrepancy between text and image is Delacroixs...
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Edward Palmer: Present before the Creation of Archaeological Stratigraphy and Associations, Formation Processes, and Ethnographic Analogy

Journal article by Marvin D. Jeter; Journal of the Southwest, Vol. 41, 1999

Subjects:

Archaeological methods, Archaeology--Methods, Mound-builders--Research, Mounds--Research

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Jeter 1990a: 138-39). After leaving the Mound Survey, he also published a very short...construction techniques he had seen Puebloan Indians using in the Southwest. I previously dismissed...here) all "Toltec" pottery-using, house-building Indians had another, so he felt confident...
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From Bobtail to Brer Rabbit Native American Influences on Uncle Remus

Journal article by Jay Hansford C. Vest; American Indian Quarterly, Vol. 24, 2000

Subjects:

Indians Of Central America, Indians Of Mexico, Indians Of North America

Collections: Entire Library

...away up on the Tapajos, Red Negro, and Tapura). These Indians hardly ever see a Negro, and their languages are very...period (1000 B.C.E.-700 C.E.), a time of extensive mound building, points to strong influences from Mesoamerica, including...
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Early Modern Southeastern North America and the Broader Atlantic and American Worlds

Journal article by Jack P. Greene; Journal of Southern History, Vol. 73, 2007

Subjects:

Colonization--Influence, Colonization--Social aspects, Cultural identity--Evaluation, Indigenous peoples--History, Indigenous peoples--Social aspects, United States history--Evaluation

Collections: History, Entire Library

...of urband-welling and mound-building Mississippian peoples...thousand evangelized Indians organized into self-governing...royal subsidies to the Indians in return for their agricultural...a few hundred refugee Indians and fugitive slaves...
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Southernization

Journal article by Lynda Shaffer; Journal of World History, Vol. 5, 1994

Subjects:

World History

Collections: History, Entire Library

...St. Louis, Illinois), which for three centuries had been the largest and most influential of the Mississippian mound-building centers, declined after 1200, and in Mexico Toltec power collapsed. In the Mediterranean the prestige of the Byzantine...

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Magazine Articles on: mound building indians

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Revisiting the Mound-Builder Controversy

Magazine article by Thomas S. Garlinghouse; History Today, Vol. 51, September 2001

Subjects:

Mound-builders--Research, Mounds--Research, Native Americans--Antiquities

Collections: History, Entire Library

...continuous mound-building activity...Report on the Mound Explorations...connecting the Indians and the mound...Indeed, the Mound-building tradition...observed Creek Indians, for example...and Natchez Indians were the...were the mound-building peoples...
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Indians Created First Major Urban Centers

Magazine article; USA Today (Society for the Advancement of Education), Vol. 133, April 2005

Subjects:

Cahokia Mounds, Collinsville, Illinois--Buildings and facilities, Cahokia Mounds, Collinsville, Illinois--History, Cahokia Mounds, Collinsville, Illinois--Protection and preservation, Mississippian culture--Analysis, Native American culture--Exhibitions, Native American culture--History, Native American history--Analysis, Native Americans--Analysis, Native Americans--Culture, Native Americans--Exhibitions, Native Americans--History, Prehistoric peoples--History

Collections: Entire Library

...Southwest, the Indians in the ancient...Louisiana, the mound builders, as they...Ceremonial mound building, stone carving...about 1400, by Indians of the Mississippian...center is Monks Mound, the largest prehistoric...the city. Monks Mound was named for...Ponca, and Quapaw Indians--make no references...
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Be Warned - Trespassing on First Nations' Spirituality

Magazine article by Alice Beck Kehoe; World and I, Vol. 17, June 2002

Subjects:

Native Americans--Rites, ceremonies and celebrations, Native North Americans--Rites, ceremonies and celebrations

Collections: Entire Library

...Site open to the public). At its center is an immense terraced mound, nearly as large as Mexicos Pyramid of the Sun and larger than...enough for a football field, stood a council house and other buildings. Before it stretches a plaza one-third of a mile long, its...
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A Pigeon in Piketon

Magazine article by Geoffrey Sea; American Scholar, Vol. 73, Winter 2004

Subjects:

Pigeons, Pigeons--Analysis, Rutherford, Ernest, Soddy, Frederick

Collections: Entire Library

...once what the ancient Indians, the Mound Builders, would think...to work in the X-326 building, the upper end of the...by a letter and every building by a number. The Piketon...X-326 was the process building that Bud and I looked...
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Peace from Blood

Magazine article by Bud Johnston, Rona Moore; World and I, Vol. 14, October 1999

Subjects:

Ceremonial objects--History, Native Americans--Tobacco-pipes, Native North Americans, Quarries and quarrying--History, Quarrying--History, Tobacco pipes

Collections: Entire Library

...Two-thousand-year-old pipes have been found at Mound City, in present- day Ohio...keep it open and free to the Indians to visit and procure stone...for maintaining the park or building new structures, however...contact between whites and Indians inspired new subject matter...

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Newspaper Articles on: mound building indians

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Scale the Heights of Pikes Peak on Wisconsin/Iowa Border

Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), May 23, 2004

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...example of prehistoric mound-building culture. The site, operated...years ago by American Indians, are low-relief shapes...park. The Great Bear mound is 137 feet long and...their presence with the building of Fort Shelby. During...
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By Barge and Bridge into the Heartland

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, March 23, 2002

Subjects:

Ohio

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...riverbanks, which the Indians called "Oyo" - they...constructed by the mound-building people of the Hopewell...Conus Mound in the Mound Cemetery - a popular...life in Ohio. The buildings, dating from 1830...cooperage). The first building was renovated in...
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Discover the Ebb and Flow of the Centuries in Warren County, Ohio

Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), August 28, 2005

Subjects:

Dickens, Charles

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...8000-1200 B.C.) and the mound- building Hopewell (300 B.C. to...years ago by Hopewell Indians, enclose a modern museum...the effect on American Indians. A particularly poignant...smallpox. More American Indians perished from these diseases...
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What's Elburn's Story? New Book an Interesting Read on Village's Past

Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), April 13, 2005

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Robinsons book begins at Johnsons Mound, a 50-foot knob on the prairie...and meeting place by American Indians. Some say Chief Little Thunder...baseball game or other event. The building still stands on the southwest...Margaret, in a cabin on Johnsons Mound; surely Martha and her siblings...
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Spiritually Focused Labyrinth Coming to U.S. Capitol Lawn

Newspaper article by Julia Duin; The Washington Times, March 3, 2000

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...the same day in the Cannon House Office Building rotunda. One of the speakers at the...various civilizations, including the Hopi Indians in Arizona and among such Nordic countries...millennium. Others include a raised earth mound labyrinth in Albiquiu, N.M., a highly...

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