In the Northeast, “Our Indians” don’t have "mounds."

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“Cahokia was a huge city, at the same time as Chaco,” Stephen H. Lekson writes. 

“And it had the biggest pyramid north of Mexico City, and we call it a ‘mound.’

 “Our Indians” don’t have pyramids; they have mounds — just like any Indian boat is a ‘canoe.’

 

So I write:

In the Northeast, “Our Indians” don’t have mounds – all we have is field clearing rock piles

— just like any Indian town or village is a ‘nomadic camp’

— just like any Indian highway is a “path”

— just like any Indian Cranberry Garden is a “swamp”

— just like any Indian Ceremonial Stone Enclosure is a “stone wall,” which is really a “stone fence,” which is really a “linear trash heap of field clearing stones”  

—unless of course it’s a Sheep Fence for your flocks and flocks of Merino Sheep aka “The Military Industrial Sheep Complex”

 

 

 Stirring the pots: Stephen H. Lekson on Southwestern archaeology

Paul Weideman Feb 17, 2017

“Mexico nationalized its past. Its indigenous past is part of the national identity, and that’s certainly not the case with how the United States has dealt with Native people; it’s sort of an us-and-them kind of thing.” ~ Stephen H. Lekson

https://www.santafenewmexican.com/pasatiempo/art/stirring-the-pots-stephen-h-lekson-on-southwestern-archaeology/article_1abd0546-d68b-5f7c-aa68-9a43d7938aa9.htm