9 RegisterLog in Sign up with one click: Facebook Twitter Google Share on Facebook Wikipedia (Bot.)a coarse, high grass (Chrysopogon nutans), common in the southern portions of the United States; wood grass. See also:Indian Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & ...
In 1733, the government fulfilled that promise for Lovewell’s men, handing out parcels in an area northwest of Worcester. These lots comprised “Volunteer Town” — a nod to the bounty hunters’ murderous initiative — and in 1754, the town was incorporated as Petersham. Scalping and genocide...
Soon the road was lined with mounds of debris stacked high from the wind’s fury. Flood water encroached on the highway. Power poles and their dangling wires swayed in an ocean breeze. And then, a boat in a tree. Valerie Slack is an architect and president of the Treasure Coast Chapter...
Soon the road was lined with mounds of debris stacked high from the wind’s fury. Flood water encroached on the highway. Power poles and their dangling wires swayed in an ocean breeze. And then, a boat in a tree. Valerie Slack is an architect and president of the Treasure Coast Chapter...
Royalty were buried in great mounds accompanied by plentiful grave goods. Parallel Stories: 1.Chinook— a Penutian speaking people found around the mouth of the Columbia River in Washington and British Columbia in the Pacific northwest. The staple of their diet was salmon. The Chinook built their...
According to early writers, the Principal People claimed that they arrived in their homeland after migrating from the west on the upper waters of the Ohio where they had errected the mounds on Grave Creek. They then gradually moved eastward across the Alleghany mountains to the neighborhood of...
If the graves of the thousands of victims who have fallen in the terrible wars of the two races had been placed in line the philanthropist might travel from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and from the Lakes to the Gulf, and be constantly in sight of green mounds. And yet we marvel at ...
(seeslash-and-burn agriculture); fruit and nut trees were not girdled but rather became part of the larger garden or field system. Crops were planted in small mounds or hills about three feet (one metre) across. Corn was planted in the centre of the mound, beans in a ring around the...