#Indian mounds

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Y’all I am So Excited about this. The Serpent Mound and the other Hopewell mounds are one of the few genuinely cool things about Ohio

Excerpts:

"In the past we might sometimes say 'Hopewell culture' or 'Hopewell people,' but what we really understand 'Hopewell' to be now is not a new peoples," explains Bill Kennedy, site manager and site archeologist at Fort Ancient Earthworks and Nature Preserve. "It's a new religious movement of people. It's happening all throughout eastern North America. It reaches a fluorescence, though, in southern Ohio that it doesn't reach anywhere else."

…Chief Ben Barnes of the Shawnee Tribe, who was involved in the earthworks nomination, also sees its inscription on the UNESCO World Heritage List as a step toward combating racist and ignorant stereotypes about his people and his ancestors.

"They're great civil engineers. They're artists, they're astronomers, mathematicians, and for my people, that's not the way that Shawnee people, or any Indigenous peoples in this country, are typically portrayed in media," he says.

In addition, the Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks address gaps in the World Heritage List identified by the World Heritage Committee. Specifically, a lack of sites representing pre-contact Indigenous American sacred architecture and sites that represent early understandings of science, culture and astronomy.

…Today no federally recognized tribes remain in Ohio. They were all forcibly removed in the 17 and 1800s. Yet it was their ancestors who created these massive feats of design and engineering.

Glenna Wallace is chief of the Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma and has been active in the World Heritage process. She says inscription on the World Heritage List is part of her mission to teach people about the earthworks that her ancestors built.

She says their inclusion would not be an ending, but another beginning.

"Our people may have been forced away from that place, and they may have disappeared, but what they built, what they constructed, what their values were, that's still there and that should be protected," she states.

"That's the reason for World Heritage."

In becoming a UNESCO World Heritage site, Wallace says she hopes the Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks will finally attain the reverence and respect they deserve.

See the linked article for more details!

[urbs-in-horto]

Not mound singular, but mounds, in many Chicagoland locations.... WBEZ interactive web page on Chicago Indian Mounds.

[dijidweeeb]

Farr Mounds, Natchez Trace Mississippi. Indian Burial Mounds.

#Appalachia #SouthernAppalachia

[occvltswim]

Princess Camelita Archilta, Apache Tribe of Oklahoma, 1976-1977

[baheuldey]

Tombe (Haudh-en-Elleth) / Tomb (Haudh-en-Elleth) (Tolktober, 18), 2024, plume, encre de Chine sur papier, 21 x 14,8 cm

[moonville-tunnel]

indian mound reserve, ohio - 2019

[merrymorningofmay]

another fascinating nugget is that mentions of the yellow king are absent both from the (2012?) true detective bible and the (2014?) draft scripts for eps 1-2, which kind of confirms my guess that part of the reason why they went with the yellow king was because he was made up by Some Guy in 1895 and had no connection to any real life cultures/cults (good call)

[goddessdiana49]

[stormbear]

Town Creek Indian Mound

[besouldesign]

Historic serpent effigy Indian site, Serpent Mound in Ohio, Adams County.

[ijustwant2ride]

Day 3 West Virginia Cryptid & Paranormal Motorcycle Ride

Day 3 of our West Virginia Cryptid and Paranormal motorcycle ride. This day we were headed for the Indian Burial Mound and the WV Penitentiary.

[urbs-in-horto]

Erased history of Chicago

Previous Urbs in Horto Chicago Indian Mounds posts here and here

[kramlabs]

I know nothing about ley lines but this is fascinating

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Adding words for search

-mounds

-society of friends

-moorish

-limestone

[baheuldey]

Les Hauts des Galgals / The Barrow Downs (Tolktober, 21), 2023, encre de Chine sur papier, 21,5 x 14 cm

[moonville-tunnel]

cedar cliff falls - 2022