Month: August 2021

https://spiromounds.com/ Cahokia Illiniois The largest Mississippian ceremonial center known today is Cahokia. Located just outside St. Louis, Missouri, this city had a population of 10,000 to 20,000 people, contained nearly 200 earthen mounds, and covered five square miles. Moundville Alabama Located on the banks of the Black Warrior River thirteen miles south of Tuscaloosa, Alabama,… Continue reading SPIRO | Spiro Exhibition

https://www.legendsofamerica.com/na-wovoka/ According to the teachings of the Northern Paiute spiritual leader Wovoka, proper practice of the dance would reunite the living with spirits of the dead, bring the spirits of the dead to fight on their behalf, make the white colonists leave, and bring peace, prosperity, and unity to the First Peoples throughout the region.… Continue reading Wovoka — Paiute Medicine Man & the Ghost Dance

Engraving with watercolours, 1740 This map was engraved and first published in 1730, but its information for New England is derived from the famous Jansson-Visscher maps of New England first issued in 1651. Mattaeus Seutter's version is the first to show the boundaries of Massachusetts, New England, New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania; but examination… Continue reading Seutter’s Map of Novi Belgii

Most school children in America learn about the Pilgrims—the group of English settlers who endured a harrowing journey to the New World in 1620 on the Mayflower. It is sometimes overlooked, however, that Plymouth was not the first stop for this congregation of religious separatists from the town of Scrooby in the English county of Nottinghamshire. Before ever setting… Continue reading Holland: First Stop for the Pilgrims

Afghanistan's banking system is in a state of collapse, and people are running out of money." there has been scant evidence so far of a reopening or of banking services returning to normal, with large crowds thronging the streets outside banks in Kabul on Wednesday. Banks were expected to reopen imminently, a Taliban spokesman said… Continue reading Afghan banking system in state of collapse

Backstory: Maternal grandfather is a widower left with 11 kids when his wife dies in childbirth - twins. Her dad was 2nd to the oldest - the old geezer produced a daughter with a Cherokee and this child walked the Trail at age 6. I think the Cherokee traders on the Peachtree raised his kids.… Continue reading Nora Dennis

In Canada, the Indian residential school system was a network of mandatory boarding schools for indigenous peoples. The network was funded by the Canadian Department of Indian Affairs and administered by the school system created to isolate Indigenous children from the influence of their own native culture and religion in order to forcefully assimilate them… Continue reading Ethnic cleansing in North America: The Indian residential school system

“The Agarthan colonies were established as a natural result of the primary star gates which are doorways from the galaxy and which provide entry and exit portals. On the surface of the Earth there were erected stone circles, pyramids and monolithic doors (usually part of larger structures) at these portal gates.” “The area around Point… Continue reading Chumash, Point Conception — Gold dust, Demonic possession and the gate of the dead