TY  - BOOK
AU  - Allen,Chadwick
TI  - Earthworks rising: mound building in Native literature and arts 
T2  - Indigenous Americas
SN  - 9781517912321
PY  - 2022///]
CY  - Minneapolis
PB  - University of Minnesota Press
KW  - Indian arts
KW  - United States
KW  - American literature
KW  - Indian authors
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Earthworks (Archaeology)
KW  - Archaeology and literature
KW  - Indians of North America
KW  - Antiquities
KW  - Mound-builders
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - "North America's Native people's ancient traditions of mound building--large-scale earthworks that remain visible today, particular at sites in Ohio and Mississippi, though evidence suggests that complex mound buildings once existed across much of today's United States. Allen seeks to place the meaning-making around these mounds through collaborations with contemporary Native artists, writers, and performers who confront settler colonial notions of these mounds as "mysterious." Through the lens of Native aesthetics, these mounds become "land-writing" that encode complex knowledges of human thinking and movement. In short, Allen's manuscript asks, "how might we better perceive and how might we better understand from Indigenous perspectives the remarkable accomplishments of North America's extensive and diverse mound-building cultures over a period of thousands of years?""--
ER  -