Document Type
Article
Abstract
The Moundbuilders are a culture of mystery, little recognized by most Americans, yet they created farms, villages, towns, and cities covering as much as a third of the United States. Social studies teachers have yet to mine the resources left us over thousands of years by the native artisans and builders who preceded the nations European explorers came into contact with after 1492. Several of the Moundbuilder cities grew to sizeable proportions and one in particular, Cahokia, Illinois, not far from East St. Louis became a kind of center for the many peoples inhabiting the surrounding tributaries of the Mississippi river. Some argue that Cahokia was the center of an empire or confederation of native peoples.
Recommended Citation
Zevin, Jack
(2016)
"Teaching The First American Civilization Recognizing The Moundbuilders as a Great Native-American Civilization,"
The Councilor: A National Journal of the Social Studies: Vol. 77:
No.
2, Article 2.
Available at:
https://thekeep.eiu.edu/the_councilor/vol77/iss2/2
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