Monday Edition: Preserving Native American Burial Mounds

Here is a good series of links about American's Indian Mounds and how
little by little these fascinating prehistoric cultural relics are
being thoughtlessly destroyed by highways and by home-owners who plow
them over or build on top of them. Having spent a happy weekend
traipsing through farmer's fields around Galena, IL, with accounts from
the Smithsonian Institute about local effigy and intaglio mounds, I
recall the excitement of finding one of these reminders of a time past.
There are linear mounds and conical mounds. But without some kind of
recognition of the importance of these reminders of the past, will they
all disappear?
[q
url="http://www.poynter.org/content/content_print.asp?id=132038&custom="]Many
of these mounts are hundreds, and possibly thousands, of years old.
Some of these prehistoric cultures still are a mystery. But many Native
Americans consider them sacred, while archaeologists and historians
prize them as historic evidence of early native cultures.[/q]