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2006-09-12 12:15:44 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference Other - Education

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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" 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.

2006-09-12 12:21:54 · answer #1 · answered by Soda Popinski 6 · 0 0

Sierra,
Where I live is close to the mississippi river, and we have a mound, Etowah Indians made them, for their dead, they are a burial ground for the chief or a very important indian of the tribe, there are more than just one indian in the mounds, alot of the mounds are close to the rivers, they even went as far as to put a mote around them. Etowah Mounds symbolize a socitey rich in rituals. We have a museum with all the things that were found in the mound. And alot of pictures of what it looked like back years ago. Im not really sure if other indians besides the Etowah made them, but I do know that they are found mostly in the East close to the mississippi river. There are more mounds though other then the ones close to the mississppi river! Hope this helps!

2006-09-12 12:40:45 · answer #2 · answered by BonnieJ 4 · 0 0

The Mound Builders were a group of Native Americans in the Mid-west (along the Mississippi river) who built large mounds of earth for burial and other religious and social purposes. They exisited before Columbus came to the Americas. Check out these websites for more info and look at the pictures. They were really quite amazing.

2006-09-12 12:28:44 · answer #3 · answered by settingsun2001 2 · 0 1

Generic, descriptive name for American Indian that lived in the mid-east.mid-west ..through the south-west of the US.
There was a large settlement just east of St. Louis, MO , in Cahokia, IL.

Some theorists maintain they were influenced by contact with
Meso-American tribes through trade routes; others contend that the mound builders developed that part of their culture seperately.

2006-09-12 12:27:46 · answer #4 · answered by Gemelli2 5 · 0 0

Indian's that were, I think, predominate in the north east U. S. They buried their deceased under mounds. I say north east because there is evidence of their existence in my area in western Md. and West Virginia.

2006-09-12 12:25:27 · answer #5 · answered by wmf936 5 · 0 0

Native American's who buried their dead in large mounds.

2006-09-12 12:21:23 · answer #6 · answered by ................................ 1 · 0 0

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2006-09-12 12:26:04 · answer #7 · answered by confused/hurt/angry 3 · 0 1

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