Posted on 01/08/2010 2:36:32 PM PST by Scythian
Re: Ohio Serpent Mound
There’s little doubt that the Serpent Mound was used in religious ceremonies by the Adena, and possibly by the later Hopewell Indians, who built their own elaborate earthworks in the area. When settlers first discovered the mound, there was a fire-scorched stone monument in the egg-shaped head, which probably means it was used as an altar of some sort. It’s also theorized that the Adena might have performed human sacrifice in the mouth of the serpent; aside from blackened stones, ceremonial knives have been unearthed there. Other evidence lies in the number of headless skeletons which have been discovered in gravesites nearby.
source: http://www.forgottenoh.com/Counties/Adams/serpent.html
He calls it abortion.
Well, “steal,” is perhaps the wrong term. Dispossessed is perhaps a more accurate one. It covers all the cases. The Cherokees of northern Georgia who in the 1830s were driven off their lands were no more “primitive” than many of their white neighbors. Indeed many of them were “mixed bloods”. Their fault was stubbornly refusing to move after Andrew Jackson came down against them and refused to enforce a supreme court decision protecting their rights against the state of Georgia. Thirty years later, the Georgians got a taste of their own medicine when Sherman’s army marched through the state.
Well, “steal,” is perhaps the wrong term. Dispossessed is perhaps a more accurate one. It covers all the cases. The Cherokees of northern Georgia who in the 1830s were driven off their lands were no more “primitive” than many of their white neighbors. Indeed many of them were “mixed bloods”. Their fault was stubbornly refusing to move after Andrew Jackson came down against them and refused to enforce a supreme court decision protecting their rights against the state of Georgia. Thirty years later, the Georgians got a taste of their own medicine when Sherman’s army marched through the state.
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