Mississippi Mounds - Revision history

TH at 02:14, 22 June 2023

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	The mounds consist of rich humus in agricultural lowlands.		The mounds consist of rich humus in agricultural lowlands.

	Many descendants of the Mississippian culture view the mounds as sacred, and some tribes perform ceremonies at the ancient mounds to this day. Since the founding of the [[United States]], settlers have been destroying them in the name of "development" (often [[farmland]] or [[highway]]), while collectors + archaeologists loot their "specimens".		Many descendants of the Mississippian culture view the mounds as sacred, and some tribes perform ceremonies at the ancient mounds to this day. Since the founding of the [[United States]], settlers have been destroying them in the name of "development" (often [[farmland]] or [[deathways\|highway]]), while collectors + archaeologists loot their "specimens".

	Five of the largest mounds—the Great Circle Earthworks, Octagon Earthworks, [[Serpent Mound]], Alligator Mound and [[Cahokia Mounds]]—had to weather centuries of abuse to have the modicum of protection and respect they receive today.		Five of the largest mounds—the Great Circle Earthworks, Octagon Earthworks, [[Serpent Mound]], Alligator Mound and [[Cahokia Mounds]]—had to weather centuries of abuse to have the modicum of protection and respect they receive today.

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	The Ohio Historical Society (OHS), which receives 70% of its operational funds from the State of Ohio, is the deed holder of the Octagon Mound. The OHS leases the land to Moundbuilder's Country Club for $7,000 a year. The country club advertises their colonial hold on the land on their website, "The golf course at Moundbuilders is unlike any other in the world. It is designed around famous Prehistoric Native American Earthworks that come into play on eleven of the holes."(https://www.moundbuilderscc.com/Default.aspx?p=DynamicModule&pageid=367885&ssid=280004&vnf=1) <ref name = "Ballengee-Morris 2010">BALLENGEE-MORRIS, C. (2010). They Came, They Claimed, They Named, and We Blame: Art Education in Negotiation and Conflict. 'Studies in Art Education', 51(3), 275–287. http://www.jstor.org/stable/40650514</ref>		The Ohio Historical Society (OHS), which receives 70% of its operational funds from the State of Ohio, is the deed holder of the Octagon Mound. The OHS leases the land to Moundbuilder's Country Club for $7,000 a year. The country club advertises their colonial hold on the land on their website, "The golf course at Moundbuilders is unlike any other in the world. It is designed around famous Prehistoric Native American Earthworks that come into play on eleven of the holes."(https://www.moundbuilderscc.com/Default.aspx?p=DynamicModule&pageid=367885&ssid=280004&vnf=1) <ref name = "Ballengee-Morris 2010">BALLENGEE-MORRIS, C. (2010). They Came, They Claimed, They Named, and We Blame: Art Education in Negotiation and Conflict. 'Studies in Art Education', 51(3), 275–287. http://www.jstor.org/stable/40650514</ref>

Jb: /* Octagon */

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	The Ohio Historical Society (OHS), which receives 70% of its operational funds from the State of Ohio, is the deed holder of the Octagon Mound. The OHS leases the land to Moundbuilder's Country Club for $7,000 a year. The country club advertises their colonial hold on the land on their website, "The golf course at Moundbuilders is unlike any other in the world. It is designed around famous Prehistoric Native American Earthworks that come into play on eleven of the holes" (~~http~~:/www.moundbuilderscc.com) <ref name = "Ballengee-Morris 2010">BALLENGEE-MORRIS, C. (2010). They Came, They Claimed, They Named, and We Blame: Art Education in Negotiation and Conflict. 'Studies in Art Education', 51(3), 275–287. http://www.jstor.org/stable/40650514</ref>		The Ohio Historical Society (OHS), which receives 70% of its operational funds from the State of Ohio, is the deed holder of the Octagon Mound. The OHS leases the land to Moundbuilder's Country Club for $7,000 a year. The country club advertises their colonial hold on the land on their website, "The golf course at Moundbuilders is unlike any other in the world. It is designed around famous Prehistoric Native American Earthworks that come into play on eleven of the holes."(https://www.moundbuilderscc.com/Default.aspx?p=DynamicModule&pageid=367885&ssid=280004&vnf=1) <ref name = "Ballengee-Morris 2010">BALLENGEE-MORRIS, C. (2010). They Came, They Claimed, They Named, and We Blame: Art Education in Negotiation and Conflict. 'Studies in Art Education', 51(3), 275–287. http://www.jstor.org/stable/40650514</ref>

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Jb at 20:36, 5 December 2022

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Jb at 20:35, 5 December 2022

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	<ref name = "Sacred Land Film Project">Sacred Land Film Project, "Mississippi Mounds" by Amy Corbin (updated: 21 April 2021) https://sacredland.org/mississippi-mounds-united-states/</ref>		<ref name = "Sacred Land Film Project">Sacred Land Film Project, "Mississippi Mounds" by Amy Corbin (updated: 21 April 2021) https://sacredland.org/mississippi-mounds-united-states/</ref>

			=Octagon=

			The Ohio Historical Society (OHS), which receives 70% of its operational funds from the State of Ohio, is the deed holder of the Octagon Mound. The OHS leases the land to Moundbuilder's Country Club for $7,000 a year. The country club advertises their colonial hold on the land on their website, "The golf course at Moundbuilders is unlike any other in the world. It is designed around famous Prehistoric Native American Earthworks that come into play on eleven of the holes" (http:/www.moundbuilderscc.com) <ref name = "Ballengee-Morris 2010">BALLENGEE-MORRIS, C. (2010). They Came, They Claimed, They Named, and We Blame: Art Education in Negotiation and Conflict. 'Studies in Art Education', 51(3), 275–287. http://www.jstor.org/stable/40650514</ref>

			=Serpent=
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Jb at 19:50, 5 December 2022

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	The mounds consist of rich humus in agricultural lowlands.		The mounds consist of rich humus in agricultural lowlands.

	Many descendants of the Mississippian culture view the mounds as sacred, and some tribes perform ceremonies at the ancient mounds to this day. Since the founding of the [[United States]], settlers have been destroying them in the name of "development" ([[farmland]]; [[highway]]), while collectors + archaeologists loot their "specimens".		Many descendants of the Mississippian culture view the mounds as sacred, and some tribes perform ceremonies at the ancient mounds to this day. Since the founding of the [[United States]], settlers have been destroying them in the name of "development" (often [[farmland]] or [[highway]]), while collectors + archaeologists loot their "specimens".

	Five of the largest mounds—the Great Circle Earthworks, Octagon Earthworks, [[Serpent Mound]], Alligator Mound and [[Cahokia Mounds]]—had to weather centuries of abuse to have the modicum of protection and respect they receive today.		Five of the largest mounds—the Great Circle Earthworks, Octagon Earthworks, [[Serpent Mound]], Alligator Mound and [[Cahokia Mounds]]—had to weather centuries of abuse to have the modicum of protection and respect they receive today.

	<ref name = "Sacred Land Film Project">Sacred Land Film Project, "Mississippi Mounds" by Amy Corbin (updated: 21 April 2021) https://sacredland.org/mississippi-mounds-united-states/</ref>		<ref name = "Sacred Land Film Project">Sacred Land Film Project, "Mississippi Mounds" by Amy Corbin (updated: 21 April 2021) https://sacredland.org/mississippi-mounds-united-states/</ref>

Jb at 19:40, 5 December 2022

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	Peoples of the Mississippi basin, across a dozen millennia, have constructed thousands of ~~temple, effigy, fortress, and observatory~~ mounds from the flood loam of the Mississippi River and her tributaries. ~~The earthen hills~~ contain burials, funerary objects and iconographic artifacts. Many descendants of the Mississippian culture view the mounds as sacred, and some tribes perform ceremonies at the ancient mounds to this day. ~~The mounds were built~~ of ~~rich humus in agricultural lowlands~~, ~~and starting~~ in the ~~19th century they were destroyed by farm fields, canals, roads, and pot-hunters. Today, looting, mechanized agriculture, erosion, urban sprawl, tourism, off-road vehicles~~, ~~and highway construction continue to diminish the mounds for future generations~~.		Peoples of the Mississippi basin, across a dozen millennia, have constructed thousands of mounds from the flood loam of the [[Mississippi River]] and her tributaries. These earthworks likely served several purposes, used variously as temple, effigy, fortress, and observatory. They contain burials, funerary objects and iconographic artifacts.

			The mounds consist of rich humus in agricultural lowlands.

			Many descendants of the Mississippian culture view the mounds as sacred, and some tribes perform ceremonies at the ancient mounds to this day. Since the founding of the [[United States]], settlers have been destroying them in the name of "development" ([[farmland]]; [[highway]]), while collectors + archaeologists loot their "specimens".

	Five of the largest mounds—the Great Circle Earthworks, Octagon Earthworks, [[Serpent Mound]], Alligator Mound and [[Cahokia Mounds]]—had to weather centuries of abuse to have the modicum of protection and respect they receive today.		Five of the largest mounds—the Great Circle Earthworks, Octagon Earthworks, [[Serpent Mound]], Alligator Mound and [[Cahokia Mounds]]—had to weather centuries of abuse to have the modicum of protection and respect they receive today.

	<ref>Sacred Land Film Project, "Mississippi Mounds" by Amy Corbin (updated: 21 April 2021) https://sacredland.org/mississippi-mounds-united-states/</ref>		<ref name = "Sacred Land Film Project">Sacred Land Film Project, "Mississippi Mounds" by Amy Corbin (updated: 21 April 2021) https://sacredland.org/mississippi-mounds-united-states/</ref>

Jb at 18:22, 5 December 2022

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	~~The Mississippian Culture~~ constructed ~~hundreds~~ of temple, effigy, fortress, and observatory mounds from the flood loam of the Mississippi River and her tributaries. The earthen hills contain burials, funerary objects and iconographic artifacts. Many descendants of the Mississippian culture view the mounds as sacred, and some tribes perform ceremonies at the ancient mounds to this day. The mounds were built of rich humus in agricultural lowlands, and starting in the 19th century they were destroyed by farm fields, canals, roads, and pot-hunters. Today, looting, mechanized agriculture, erosion, urban sprawl, tourism, off-road vehicles, and highway construction continue to diminish the mounds for future generations.		Peoples of the Mississippi basin, across a dozen millennia, have constructed thousands of temple, effigy, fortress, and observatory mounds from the flood loam of the Mississippi River and her tributaries. The earthen hills contain burials, funerary objects and iconographic artifacts. Many descendants of the Mississippian culture view the mounds as sacred, and some tribes perform ceremonies at the ancient mounds to this day. The mounds were built of rich humus in agricultural lowlands, and starting in the 19th century they were destroyed by farm fields, canals, roads, and pot-hunters. Today, looting, mechanized agriculture, erosion, urban sprawl, tourism, off-road vehicles, and highway construction continue to diminish the mounds for future generations.

	Five of the largest mounds—the Great Circle Earthworks, Octagon Earthworks, [[Serpent Mound]], Alligator Mound and [[Cahokia Mounds]]—had to weather centuries of abuse to have the modicum of protection and respect they receive today.		Five of the largest mounds—the Great Circle Earthworks, Octagon Earthworks, [[Serpent Mound]], Alligator Mound and [[Cahokia Mounds]]—had to weather centuries of abuse to have the modicum of protection and respect they receive today.

	<ref>Sacred Land Film Project, "Mississippi Mounds" by Amy Corbin (updated: 21 April 2021) https://sacredland.org/mississippi-mounds-united-states/</ref>		<ref>Sacred Land Film Project, "Mississippi Mounds" by Amy Corbin (updated: 21 April 2021) https://sacredland.org/mississippi-mounds-united-states/</ref>

Jb at 17:45, 5 December 2022

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	The Mississippian Culture constructed hundreds of temple, effigy, fortress, and observatory mounds from the flood loam of the Mississippi River and her tributaries. The earthen hills contain burials, funerary objects and iconographic artifacts. Many descendants of the Mississippian culture view the mounds as sacred, and some tribes perform ceremonies at the ancient mounds to this day. The mounds were built of rich humus in agricultural lowlands, and starting in the 19th century they were destroyed by farm fields, canals, roads, and pot-hunters. Today, looting, mechanized agriculture, erosion, urban sprawl, tourism, off-road vehicles, and highway construction continue to diminish the mounds for future generations.		The Mississippian Culture constructed hundreds of temple, effigy, fortress, and observatory mounds from the flood loam of the Mississippi River and her tributaries. The earthen hills contain burials, funerary objects and iconographic artifacts. Many descendants of the Mississippian culture view the mounds as sacred, and some tribes perform ceremonies at the ancient mounds to this day. The mounds were built of rich humus in agricultural lowlands, and starting in the 19th century they were destroyed by farm fields, canals, roads, and pot-hunters. Today, looting, mechanized agriculture, erosion, urban sprawl, tourism, off-road vehicles, and highway construction continue to diminish the mounds for future generations.

	~~The five most important mound complexes in North America—the~~ Great Circle Earthworks, Octagon Earthworks, ~~Great~~ Serpent Mound, Alligator Mound and Cahokia ~~Mounds—had~~ to weather centuries of abuse to have the modicum of protection and respect they receive today.		Five of the largest mounds—the Great Circle Earthworks, Octagon Earthworks, [[Serpent Mound]], Alligator Mound and [[Cahokia Mounds]]—had to weather centuries of abuse to have the modicum of protection and respect they receive today.

	<ref>Sacred Land Film Project, "Mississippi Mounds" (updated 21 April 2021) https://sacredland.org/mississippi-mounds-united-states/</ref>		<ref>Sacred Land Film Project, "Mississippi Mounds" by Amy Corbin (updated: 21 April 2021) https://sacredland.org/mississippi-mounds-united-states/</ref>