In Spring of 2004 we took a trip to Ohio to visit the Serpent Mound. It is the largest effigy mound in the world at 1,330 feet long. There is some uncertainty about its age, it may have been built by the Adena people who built the other nearby mounds. They built mounds all over the Ohio valley down to Mississippi from 1000 BCE to 200 BCE. Or it could have been built by the later Fort Ancient people who were in the area from 1000 CE to 1550 CE. For more information please go here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serpent_MoundThere are mound sites all over the United States, these sites are our stone circles, our Stonehenges. To learn more go here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mississippian_culture
To read about our visit to North Carolina's mound site go back on this blog! (not too far, really.)
What about Walmart? we don't shop there because we think that voting with your money is one of the few powers you have left. If you haven't heard plenty of good reasons to stop supporting them with your dollars...ok here you go - they tear up these sacred mounds to build their stores, sometimes not even as a location but just for fill dirt! Please take a moment, go here and read about this, and at the very least you will have discovered Facing South, which is a great independent news source! (based here in Durham) http://www.southernstudies.org/2009/09/wal-marts-history-of-destroying-sacred-sites.html
