[PDF] The Prehistoric Legacy Of Mounds State Park eBook

Author : Karen Dalman
Publisher : Publishamerica Incorporated
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 35,12 MB
Release : 2003-07-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781592869923

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Who were those people who left virtually no record of their existence but huge earthen mounds? Located in east-central Indiana, Mounds State Park holds an important key to better understanding the entire Midwest's prehistoric past. Studied by such notables as Eli Lilly, the site has only recently begun to reveal its secrets. Converted to a state park in October of 1930, the area has long been a place of mystery, supposition, and intrigue. This extremely well-preserved archaeological site contains several geometrically-shaped earthen mounds constructed well over 2,000 years ago -- some several feet tall, others only inches high. Uncover the park's past with this simple tale of history. Gain a greater knowledge of and appreciation for the people whose names we may never know, but who transformed the land in ways that no one has before or since.

Author : T. Harri Baker
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 16,47 MB
Release : 2002-08-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781557287236

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ADOPTED BY THE STATE OF ARKANSAS FOR 2003. Once again, the State of Arkansas has adopted An Arkansas History for Young People as an official textbook for junior-high-school-Arkansas-history classes. This third edition incorporates the fruits of new research and of extensive consultations with teachers, curriculum supervisors, and students themselves. It includes many new features while preserving popular and useful aspects of previous editions. This edition has an entirely new format, clear and friendly to the student reader. The text has been re-set in double-column pages, with wider margins and more white space setting off text and illustrations. A preview section at the beginning of each chapter (What to Look For) and study questions at the end now guide students' reading. Vocabulary words appear in boldface in the text and then are listed with definitions at the end of each chapter. The updated text incorporates new material on the Clinton presidency, the Huckabee governorship, term limits, the 2000 census, demographic changes, recent scholarship on Arkansas history, updated terminology, and corrections of factual errors. Sidebars still highlight special material, and the many illustrations appear in full color and in black and white.

Author : Jason Colavito
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 44,97 MB
Release : 2020-02-20
Category : History
ISBN : 0806166916

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Say you found that a few dozen people, operating at the highest levels of society, conspired to create a false ancient history of the American continent to promote a religious, white-supremacist agenda in the service of supposedly patriotic ideals. Would you call it fake news? In nineteenth-century America, this was in fact a powerful truth that shaped Manifest Destiny. The Mound Builder Myth is the first book to chronicle the attempt to recast the Native American burial mounds as the work of a lost white race of “true” native Americans. Thomas Jefferson’s pioneering archaeology concluded that the earthen mounds were the work of Native Americans. In the 1894 report of the Bureau of American Ethnology, Cyrus Thomas concurred, drawing on two decades of research. But in the century in between, the lie took hold, with Presidents Andrew Jackson, William Henry Harrison, and Abraham Lincoln adding their approval and the Mormon Church among those benefiting. Jason Colavito traces this monumental deception from the farthest reaches of the frontier to the halls of Congress, mapping a century-long conspiracy to fabricate and promote a false ancient history—and enumerating its devastating consequences for contemporary Native people. Built upon primary sources and first-person accounts, the story that The Mound Builder Myth tells is a forgotten chapter of American history—but one that reads like the Da Vinci Code as it plays out at the upper reaches of government, religion, and science. And as far-fetched as it now might seem that a lost white race once ruled prehistoric America, the damage done by this “ancient” myth has clear echoes in today’s arguments over white nationalism, multiculturalism, “alternative facts,” and the role of science and the control of knowledge in public life.