Buried Indians Digging up the Past in a Midwestern Town

Name: Buried Indians Digging up the Past in a Midwestern Town
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ISBN: 9780299216849

ISBN-10: 0299216845

ISBN-13: 9780299216849

Edition: 2006

Authors: Laurie Hovell McMillin, Arnold R. Alanen

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In "Buried Indians, Laurie Hovell McMillin presents the struggle of her hometown, Trempealeau, Wisconsin, to determine whether platform mounds atop Trempealeau Mountain constitute authentic Indian mounds. This dispute, as McMillin subtly demonstrates, reveals much about the attitude and interaction-past and present-between the white and Indian inhabitants of this Midwestern town. McMillin's account, rich in detail and sensitive to current political issues of American Indian interactions with the dominant European American culture, locates two opposing views: one that denies a Native American presence outright and one that asserts its long history and ruthless destruction. The highly…

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List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Publication date: 3/3/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 312
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English



Illustrations


Acknowledgments


Introduction


The Surface


Routes


The Lay of the Land


Farmers


History


Old Things


Mascots


Casino


Memorials


Church


The Project


How I Got Started


Playing Indian


Who Lived Here


What's under the Surface


Digging In


Connections


Double Cousins


The Past


Hunting


Squier's Mounds


Mississippian Culture and the Platform Mounds


Progress


Departures


Farmers Again


Mother


Horses


The Dead


Platform Controversy Beginnings


Storytelling


Trempealeau Mountain


Rendezvous


Arrowheads


Local Informant


A Thing of the Present


View


What's at the Bottom


Scientific Method


Gale and Squier


Platform Controversy Again


Opening Day


Mascots Again


Genealogy


Names


Dead Indians


Natural History


Trempealeau Mountain Again


The Removals


What We Tell Ourselves


Epiphany


Excavation


No Fools


My Meeting with Harold


Backfill


Putting It Back Together


Passing On


Education


Journeys


Powwow


More Mounds


More Views


Preservation


One More Time to Trempealeau Mountain


To the Platform Mounds


And Home Again


Finishing Up


Notes