YoungBear-Tibbetts, Fawn. ―Native American Burial Mounds: Living Landscapes at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Arboretum.‖ Ecological Restoration 27.3 (2009): 254-256. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Web. 11 May 2010.YoungBear-Tibbetts, F. 2009. Native American Burial Mounds: Living ...
Discover ways Native American tribes adapted to the regions in which they lived and what innovations they discovered to survive in various climates...
From the 1890s through the 1930s, archaeologists carried out large-scale excavations of burial mounds throughout the Midwest and Southeast, regions where federal policy had forcibly pushed tribes from their land. Of the 10 institutions that hold the most human remains in the country, seven are i...
Native Americans practice some of America's most spiritually profound, historically resilient, and ethically demanding religions. Joel Martin draws his narrative from folk stories, rituals, and even landscapes to trace the development of Native American religion from ancient burial mounds, through interact...
They may have produced two crops in their fields each year, one during the mid-winter rainy season, another during the mid-summer rainy season. They likely encouraged the growth of useful wild plants such as the agave, sunflowers and tansy mustard along the margins of their fields or mounds...
burial mounds (Dunham et al.2003; Hantman et al.2004) has established that a connection between the mounds and the contemporary Monacans of central Virginia is most “parsimoniously concordant” with the archaeological and documentary evidence, whereas Boyd (2004b) has countered that the mounds ...
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Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 71; The Smithsonian Institution; Native Cemeteries and Forms of Burial East of the Mississippi; David Bushnell; 1920; p. 17: "As early as 1720 some English traders saw a large heap of stones on the ‘east side of the Westenhook or Housatonic Rover, so...
They raised crops for food and used the river as a trade route with other tribes. A unique tradition of the early Pee Dee was the creation of sacred burial mounds. Some of these mounds can still be found along the Pee Dee River. ...
The "Picosa Culture" is an encapsulation of three separate instances of similar lifestyles, housing and burial practices spread across the Southwestern states and northern Mexico. These three instances: Pinto Basin (Pi), Cochise Tradition (co), and San Pedro (sa), make up the word "Picosa." ...