which native americans are called mound builders?

Answer 1

Mound Builder is a general term referring to the Native North American peoples who constructed various styles of earthen mounds for burial, residential, and ceremonial purposes. These included Archaic, and Woodland period, and Mississippian period Pre-Columbian cultures.

The term Mound Builder was also applied to an imaginary race believed to have constructed the great earthworks of the United States, this while Euroamerican racial ideology of the 16th-19th centuries did not recognize that Native Americans were sophisticated enough to construct such monumental architecture. Reference to this alleged race appears in the poem "The Prairies"[1] by William Cullen Bryant. This fictional race has also, at times, been identified as the Nephites, Lamanites, Jaredites, some of the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel, and others, due in part to the historical claims made in a book entitled the Book of Mormon. Cyrus Thomas of the Bureau of American Ethnology in his lengthy report (727 pages, published in 1894) concluded that it was the opinion of himself and thus the United States Government that the prehistoric earthworks of the eastern United States were the work of Native Americans. Thomas Jefferson was an early proponent of this view after he excavated a mound and ascertained the continuity of burial practices observed in contemporaneous native populations

Answer 2

I am of mixed Native blood, and live in Florida. Here mounds seem to have been necessary for multiple reasons.

The water table is high, and perhaps burials, or disposal wasn't considered to be strictly a deep ion the ground issue?

"Mounds" in most cases are no different than modern day Land Fills, and often only reveal the waste of a culture. That isn't to say it isn't significant to US, but may have been thought of, by early Natives, as no more that a dump site.

I'm of Lakota and Iroqouis background, mixed with Anglo. I've never encountered those of my origin being tagged specifically as "mound builders" All tribes, all Native cultures had disposal sites they used,.,,just as we do today.

Rev. Steven

Answer 3

The ones that built mounds. But seriously, the Adena Indians and Hopewell Indians were two of the mound builders in the Ohio area

Answer 4

Some well understood examples would be the Adena culture of Ohio and nearby states, and the subsequent Hopewell culture known from Illinois to Ohio and renowned for their geometric earthworks. The Adena and Hopewell were not, however, the only mound building peoples during this time period. There were contemporaneous mound building cultures throughout the Eastern United States. (Shawnee and Iroquois)

Answer 5

here in Texas we have the cado Indian mounds

Answer 6

caddo

Answer 7

cahokians. i think.