Ancestral mounds [electronic resource] : vitality and volatility of Native America / Jay Miller ; foreword by Alfred Berryhill.

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"Ancestral Mounds deconstructs earthen mounds and myths in examining their importance in contemporary Native communities. Two centuries of academic scholarship regarding mounds have examined who, what, where, when, and how, but no serious investigations have addressed the basic question, why? Drawin...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Miller, Jay, 1947-
Language:English
Published: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2015.
Subjects:
Mounds > Oklahoma.
Indians of North America > Oklahoma > Antiquities.
Ethnology > Oklahoma.
Indians of North America > Funeral customs and rites > Oklahoma.
Indians of North America > Oklahoma > Religion.
Indians of North America > Oklahoma > Social life and customs.
Community life > Oklahoma.
Monuments > Social aspects > Oklahoma.
Oklahoma > Antiquities.
Oklahoma > Social life and customs.
Online Access:
ProQuest Ebook Central - Academic Complete: 2015 (Ebook Central @ Proquest)
EBSCO eBooks: 2015 (EBSCO)
eBook Academic Collection (EBSCOhost) – North America: 2015 (EBSCO)
Variant Title:
Ancestral Mounds: Vitality and Volatility of Native America
Format: Electronic eBook
Contents:
  • Archaeological Time Frame
  • Kinship Codes
  • Graphic Codes
  • Mounding Up
  • Breaking Ground
  • SEeing Mounds
  • Modern Mounding
  • Mounds in Full.