Author: William StagePublisher:
ISBN: 9780962912405
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Mound City Chronicles
Author: William StagePublisher:
ISBN: 9780962912405
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Mound City
Author: Patricia ClearyPublisher: University of Missouri Press
ISBN: 0826274994
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 463
Book Description
Nearly one thousand years ago, Native peoples built a satellite suburb of America's great metropolis on the site that later became St. Louis. At its height, as many as 30,000 people lived in and around present-day Cahokia, Illinois. While the mounds around Cahokia survive today (as part of a state historic site and UNESCO world heritage site), the monumental earthworks that stood on the western shore of the Mississippi were razed in the 1800s. But before and after they fell, the mounds held an important place in St. Louis history, earning it the nickname “Mound City.” For decades, the city had an Indigenous reputation. Tourists came to marvel at the mounds and to see tribal delegations in town for trade and diplomacy. As the city grew, St. Louisans repurposed the mounds—for a reservoir, a restaurant, and railroad landfill—in the process destroying cultural artifacts and sacred burial sites. Despite evidence to the contrary, some white Americans declared the mounds natural features, not built ones, and cheered their leveling. Others espoused far-fetched theories about a lost race of Mound Builders killed by the ancestors of contemporary tribes. Ignoring Indigenous people's connections to the mounds, white Americans positioned themselves as the legitimate inheritors of the land and asserted that modern Native peoples were destined to vanish. Such views underpinned coerced treaties and forced removals, and—when Indigenous peoples resisted—military action. The idea of the “Vanishing Indian” also fueled the erasure of Indigenous peoples’ histories, a practice that continued in the 1900s in civic celebrations that featured white St. Louisans “playing Indian” and heritage groups claiming the mounds as part of their own history. Yet Native peoples endured and in recent years, have successfully begun to reclaim the sole monumental mound remaining within city limits. Drawing on a wide range of sources, Patricia Cleary explores the layers of St. Louis’s Indigenous history. Along with the first in-depth overview of the life, death, and afterlife of the mounds, Mound City offers a gripping account of how Indigenous histories have shaped the city’s growth, landscape, and civic culture.
Journey to Cahokia
Author: Albert LorenzPublisher: Harry N. Abrams
ISBN: 9780810950474
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Published in association with The Art Institute of Chicago, this title relates the tale of a young Native American who is chosen to make a trading journey from his small village to the great mound city of Cahokia that existed in America's midwest more than 600 years ago. Full color.
Mound City Group National Monument (N.M.), Interpretive Prospectus B1; Statement for Management (1982)
Author: Exploration of the Mound City Group
Author: William Corless MillsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mounds
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Cahokia Mounds
Author: William R. IsemingerPublisher: Landmarks
ISBN: 9781596297340
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Description of archaeological site known as the Cahokia Mounds in western Illinois.
Annual Report of the State of Horticultural Society
Author: Missouri State Horticultural SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Horticulture
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
The Mound City Chronicles
Author: Dennis E. ParkPublisher:
ISBN: 9781931835039
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
The Real Mound Builders of North America
Author: A. Martin ByersPublisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 1666901288
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
The Real Mound Builders of North America contrasts the evolutionary view that emphasizes abrupt discontinuities with the Hopewellian ceremonial assemblage and mounds. Byers argues that these communities persisted unchanged in terms of their essential structures and traditions, varying only in ceremonial practices that manifested these structures.
Flower Mound
Author: Jimmy Ruth Hilliard MartinPublisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 0738595837
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
Many may think that Flower Mound was a city founded in 1962, but this well illustrated book tells the story of the generations who lived in the area. It includes photographs of early pioneers, farms, buildings, cemetaries and churches.